Rudolf Michael Schmitz (born March 22, 1957, in Eitorf, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German Catholic prelate.
He is currently the Vicar General for the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest.
[1] Schmitz was ordained a priest on 10 October 1982 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI),[2] and earned a doctorate in dogmatic theology in 1988.
He served as an assistant lecturer at the University of Munich from 1993 to 1995 before being assigned to the Apostolic Nunciature to Kyrgyzstan and working as a professor at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in Bishkek.
In 2000 he became District Superior for the ICKSP in the United States.