Lorenz Hopfenmüller, also known as Father Otto Hopfenmüller, was a Catholic priest of the religious order of the Society of the Divine Saviour.
He was the first Apostolic prefect of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shillong (Assam Mission).
[1][3][4] On 6 October 1866, Hopfenmüller was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg but in 1887 he became a professed member of the Society of the Divine Saviour[2] and took the religious name Otto.
[2] He started to translate the Holy Bible and wrote a catechism in the local Khasi language.
[1][3][4] Hopfenmüller died in Assam, India on 20 August 1890[2] due to heat stroke.