Luis Nicolás Rivera-Pagán (born December 5, 1942, in San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico) is the Henry Winters Luce Professor Emeritus of Ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

(1968) at Yale University and in 1970 his PhD, also at Yale with the dissertation Unity and Truth: The Unity of God, Man, Jesus Christ, and the Church in Irenaeus, under Jaroslav Pelikan.

Between 1999 and 2000 Rivera-Pagán was the John Alexander Mackay Visiting professor on World Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary.

This position, held during his sabbatical year lead to his appointment in 2003 to the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary, as the Henry Winters Luce Professor of Ecumenics and Mission.

[1] Presently Rivera-Pagán holds the chair of Humanities at the Faculty of General Studies of the University of Puerto Rico.