José Telésforo Paúl y Vargas, SJ (5 January 1831 – 8 April 1889) was a Colombian Catholic bishop and Jesuit who worked in Panama and Colombia.
Born in Bogotá, he served as bishop of Panamá from 1876 to 1884 and as archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada (now the Archdiocese of Bogotá, Colombia) from 1884 until his death in 1889.