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Pablo Muñoz Vega, SJ (23 May 1903 – 3 June 1994) was an Ecuadorian Catholic prelate who served as
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from 1967 until his resignation in 1985. He was a member of the
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and was made a
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in 1969. His cause of canonization commenced on 9 April 2016 after the
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granted their formal approval of the cause on 10 December 2015; this gives him the title
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.


Life

Pablo Muñoz Vega was born in Mira on 23 May 1903 as the fourth child to Antonio Salustiano Muñoz Carrera and Josefa Vega. He was
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on 24 May as "Segundo Pablo Mordoqueo". He joined the
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on 27 September 1918 (beginning his
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on 26 November 1918) and studied at the Jesuit houses for studies in
Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...
(such as the San Ignacio school in Cotocollao in 1915) and in 1922 obtained a
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in humanities. He later studied from 1929 to 1930 in
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and then was transferred to
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in
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at the Colegio Maximo de Oña; he also studied in
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at the Pontifical Gregorian since September 1932. He studied humanities as well as
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and
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and obtained a degree from College Maximo San Ignacio in Quito in 1927 and then a doctorate from Facultad Teologia at the school of Oña in 1931. He acquired his doctorate in 1937 and was titled "Magister Aggregatus". Vega made his initial profession on 27 February 1920. Vega later taught at Cotocollao and later at the Jesuit school of San Felipe Neri in
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from 1926 until 1928 and he began developing an interest and focus in the works of
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who would become the basis for some of his spiritual writings. Vega was
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to the priesthood in 1933 in the Sant'Ignazio Church in Rome and commenced further studies there from 1933 until 1937. Once he completed his studies he served as a staff member in the philosophical department at the Gregorian from 1937 until 1949 at which point he was appointed as the Jesuit provincial for Ecuador later in 1958; he held that post until 1964. Vega also served as an expert at the
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in 1962 at the council's first session and would later then participate as a bishop in the second and third sessions of the council. He also served as the rector of the Pontifical Pio-Latin American College in Rome from 1955 until 1958 and served as the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Gregorian from 1958 until 1963.
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appointed him as the Titular Archbishop of Ceramus (with the rank
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of
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since it was a
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and not a titular archbishopric) and as the
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"sedis datus" for the Quito archdiocese in 1964. He received his
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on 19 March 1964 in Rome from Cardinal
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. He succeeded to the
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of
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on 23 June 1967 after serving as its coadjutor which meant that he had the right of succession in that role. He attended the final two sessions of the Second Vatican Council as a bishop from 1964 until 1965. He attended the 1967 gathering of bishops in Rome from 29 September to 29 October and also became the President of the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference; he had two terms from 1969 to 1973 and then 1975 to 1984. He attended several other episcopal gatherings in Rome spanning the next decade. Vega was made the Cardinal-Priest of San Roberto Bellarmino on 28 April 1969 and received his title on 30 April from Paul VI. He participated in the first conclave in 1978 that elected
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and the following conclave that
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that saw the election of
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. In his role as a cardinal he was a member of both the
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and the
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. In 1979 he attended the Third General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate in
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in
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and attended a gathering of the
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from 5–9 November 1979. He lost the right to vote in conclaves after he turned 80 in 1983. He resigned from the pastoral governance of the archdiocese in 1985 as was a requirement of
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. Vega also attended his last conference of the Latin American Episcopate in the
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from 12 to 28 October 1992. He died in his old see on 3 June 1994 and is buried in the archdiocesan cathedral.


Beatification process

On 21 February 2013 a formal request for the beatification process was lodged to the
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in Rome. The C.C.S. granted their formal approval to the cause on 10 December 2015 with the declaration of "
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" (nothing against) to the cause. The diocesan process commenced on 9 April 2016 in Quito.


References


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