Pacifico Ortiz

{{Short description|Filipino Jesuit priest (1913–1983)}}

{{Philippine name|Arreza|Ortiz}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|list=SJ}}

| image = BantayogWall20181115Alternativity-1998-99.jpg

| caption = Detail of the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, showing names from the 2000 batch of Bantayog Honorees, including that of Pacifico Ortiz.

| image_size = 270px

| name = Pacifico A. Ortiz

| order = 25th

| title = President of the
Ateneo de Manila University

| term_start = 1969

| term_end = 1970

| predecessor = James F. Donelan

| successor = Francisco Araneta

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|9|25|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Cantilan, Surigao, Philippine Islands

| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|12|9|1913|9|25|mf=y}}

| death_place= Manila, Philippines

| nationality = Filipino

| profession = Professor
Jesuit priest

}}

Pacifico Arreza Ortiz {{post-nominals|list=SJ}} (September 25, 1913 – December 9, 1983){{Cite web |url=http://www.bantayog.org/ortiz-pacifico-a/ |title=HEROES & MARTYRS: ORTIZ, Pacifico A. |date=2016-03-06 |website=Bantayog ng mga Bayani |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-05}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bantayog.org/ortiz-pacifico-a/ |title=HEROES & MARTYRS: ORTIZ, Pacifico A. |date=2016-03-06 |website=Bantayog ng mga Bayani |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-05}} was a Filipino Jesuit priest and academic. He is best known as a spiritual adviser of Manuel L. Quezon, for being the first Filipino president of the Ateneo de Manila University,{{Cite news |url=http://www.theguidon.com/1112/main/2012/08/milestones-that-built-a-school/ |title=Milestones that built a school |date=2012-08-17 |work=The Guidon |access-date=2019-11-05 |language=en}}{{Cite book |title=Whose side are we on? : Memoirs of a PMAer |last=Simbulan |first=Dante C. |publisher=Center for People Empowerment in Governance, Inc. |isbn=9789719548850 |location=Quezon City, Philippines |oclc=969973376|year = 2016}} and as a staunch critic of the Martial Law dictatorship of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos,{{Cite journal |jstor=27908249 |last1=Rigos |first1=Cirilo A. |title=The Posture of the Church in the Philippines under Martial Law |journal=Southeast Asian Affairs |year=1975 |volume=1975 |pages=127–132 }} especially while he served as the delegate for the province of Rizal to the 1971 Philippine Constitutional Convention.