Person DS/UK/1752 Munitiz; Joseph (1931-2022); Jesuit Priest Munitiz Joseph 1931-2022 Jesuit Priest Male Born 23 December 1931, Cardiff. Entered the British Province of the Society of Jesus 14 September 1950. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 14 July 1965. Final vows in the Society of Jesus 2 February 1968. Died 16 July 2022, Boscombe.

Fr Munitiz was born in Cardiff on 23rd December 1931, and educated at St Mary’s College in Liverpool, and then at the Colegio Santa Maria at Vitoria in Spain. At the age of 17 he entered the diocesan seminary at Comillas, but after two years decided to join the Society, moving to the novitiate at Harlaxton in 1950. After First Vows he made a year’s juniorate at Manresa, Roehampton, and the moved to Heythrop in Oxfordshire for philosophy. In 1955 he returned to Roehampton for a third year of philosophy, followed by a year of pedagogical studies. Four years at Campion Hall in Oxford followed, studying for an MA in Classical Mods and Greats. After a year of regency at Stonyhurst teaching Latin, he went back to Comillas, this time as a Jesuit, for theology, and was ordained there in 1965. Next came a fourth year of theology, after which he made his tertianship at St Beuno’s under Paul Kennedy. For a decade from 1967 he was engaged in Byzantine studies in Rome (at the Orientale), Paris, London and Greece, being awarded a DLitt by the University of Paris in 1976. Between that year and 1983 he taught at the University of Louvain in Belgium, and then returned to London to teach at Heythrop, and edit the Heythrop Journal. He was Superior of the Jesuit community in Cavendish Square between 1987 and 1989, then moved to Campion Hall as Master. During these years he spent some time as a Province Consultor. After a sabbatical in 1998, he joined the community at Manresa in Birmingham as Socius to the novice-master. Throughout his adult life he continued his research and writing in Byzantine studies, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Birmingham in 2004. In 2010 he returned to Campion Hall as Assistant Superior, later becoming an Emeritus Fellow and also the Hall’s librarian. In 2017 he moved to London, initially to Mount Street and then to Copleston House, where he stayed until ill health led to a move to the Corpus Christi Jesuit Community in Boscombe. He died there 16 July. He was 90 years old, in the 72nd year of religious life. Member of the British Province of the Society of Jesus Email from Fr Paul Nicholson, Socius, 18 July 2022; Catalogue of the Provinces Britain & Ireland and the Region of the European Low Countries 2021 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes CURIA\mallen 18/07/2022 user 10/08/2022 3df7f81a-a3ae-4784-8ac3-92886508effc