Paulus Moritz (29 June 1869 – 19 November 1942) was a German Roman Catholic cleric and founder of a minor branch of the Franciscan order.Moritz was born in Königsberg, Prussia, to Jewish parents and was named Heymann Hermann Moritz. He received his Jewish and primary education in Königsberg. Moritz broke with Bodewig by 1899 and associated himself with the new Diocesan Congregation of Lahore. Around this time, he had also knotted a firm relationship with the French bishop Pelvat of Nagpur, headquarters of the Province of Central India & Berars.