Father Michael Flynn, S.J., 71, a priest for 39 years, and a Jesuit for 50 years, died of cancer on July 27 at Murray-Weigel Hall, Bronx.

A native of Holy Child Jesus parish, Richmond Hill, he attended Power Memorial Academy in Manhattan, and St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, before entering the Jesuits in 1962 at the novitiate at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie. He completed collegiate studies at Loyola Seminary, Shrub Oak. Following theology studies at Woodstock College Manhattan, he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Terence Cooke at the Fordham University Church on May 26, 1973. His profession of final vows as a Jesuit took place on Oct. 18, 1981.

Father Flynn engaged in a number of different ministries from the classroom at Xavier H.S., Manhattan, to director of Vocations for the New York Province, and then to parish ministry in the Hispanic community. He is survived by his brother Charles Flynn of Garden City, L.I.

Burial was at the Jesuit cemetery in Auriesville, N.Y.