Doroteo Hernández Vera (28 March 1901 - 6 November 1991) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the secular institute Cruzada Evangélica. He served as a chaplain following his ordination and celebrated clandestine Masses and other services during the Spanish Civil War leading to his arrest. It was during his imprisonment that he saw the need to better evangelize to bring the Gospel message to those that either rejected or did not know about God while also seeing it as his objective to minister in prisons. He did this in the time after his release from prison until near the end of his life when he retired upon the significant decline of his health.