Pablo Ervin Schmitz Simon

Pablo Ervin Schmitz Simon OFMCap (born December 3, 1943) is an American Capuchin friar, who was bishop of Bluefields, Nicaragua, from 1994 to 2020.

Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, on December 3, 1943, Schmitz was ordained to the priesthood on September 3, 1970, for the Capuchin order.

On January 2, 1990, Schmitz was injured in an attack in Nicaragua by armed men identified as "contra" fighters that led to the deaths of two Roman Catholic nuns.

[3] On 30 November 2017, the Apostolic Vicariate was promoted to a diocese and Schmitz was named its first diocesan bishop.

[5] On 9 January 2020, Pope Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Siuna following the death of Bishop David Albin Zywiec Sidor.