Alfredo María Obviar y Aranda (29 August 1889 – 1 October 1978) was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Catechists of Saint Thérèse of the Infant Jesus.

[2] Obviar received his early religious instruction at the college of St. Francis Xavier in Manila run by the Society of Jesus, where he graduated in 1901.

He earned his degree in Bachelor of Arts at Ateneo de Manila in 1914, and proceeded to the University of Santo Tomas Pontifical Seminary for his theological studies.

His pastoral ministry began that same year at Luta (now Malvar, Batangas) and he continued as vicar of the cathedral-parish in Lipa from 1927 to 1944.

[3] He was subsequently ordained to the episcopate on 29 June 1944, with the Apostolic delegate to the Philippines, Archbishop Guglielmo Piani, as principal consecrator, with Pedro Paulo Santos, Bishop of Caceres, and César Ma.

[5] Obviar died at the age of 89, in Lucena, Quezon, on 1 October 1978,[6] on the feast of his patron saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus.