| Type: | Missionary Priest |
| Birth Place: | Weismain Germany |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Reverend Servant of God |
| Honorific-Suffix: | S.D.S. |
| Alma Mater: | University of Würzburg |
| Nationality: | German |
| Death Place: | Shillong, India |
| Birth Date: | 29 May 1844 |
| Lorenz Hopfenmüller | |
| Rank: | Catholic Priest |
| Ordination: | 7 May 1957 |
| Diocese: | Shillong |
| Archdiocese: | Shillong |
| Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Prefect of Assam | |
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] [2] [3] [4]
Hopfenmüller was born on 29 May 1844 in Weismain, Germany. He completed his doctorate from University of Würzburg.
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 and took the religious name Otto.
In 1889, Hopfenmüller was sent to a foreign mission in Assam, India and was appointed prefect of the mission on 31 December 1889. He started to translate the Holy Bible and wrote a catechism in the local Khasi language.
Hopfenmüller died in Assam, India on 20 August 1890 due to heat stroke.