John Robert Wright was an American Episcopal priest and St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery professor at General Theological Seminary and a church historian. He was a specialist in patristic studies and an authority on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and on Russian Orthodox and other icons. He was the longest-tenured faculty member at the General Theological Seminary.

Wright was known for his engagement in ecumenical dialogues between the US Episcopal Church and other churches, particularly the Roman Catholic, Armenian Apostolic, and Russian Orthodox, as well as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Old Catholics, and the Philippine Independent Church. He was the principal Episcopal author of the Called to Common Mission accord with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

He did his undergraduate work at the University of the South in Sewanee and also studied at Oxford University and the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto.

Documents

• ARCIC-II SF/1417 ~ The Canterbury Statement and the Five Priesthoods
  1975
• ARCIC-II 59-1 ~ Ordination of Women to the Priesthood: Additional Bibliography for ARCIC-II 59
  1986
• ARCIC-II 61 ~ Comments on the Storrington Draft
  1986
• ARCIC-II 59-2 ~ Ordination to the Priesthood: Additional Bibliography
  1986
• ARCIC-II 61 ~ Additional Comments on the Storrington Draft
  1986
• Called to Full Unity: Documents on Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations, 1966-1983
  1986
• ARCIC-II 58-1 ~ An Anglican View of the Substantive Issues Raised by the Ordination of Women and of How ARCIC-II Might Handle the Question
  1986
• ARCIC-II SF/953 ~ Correspondence between the Revd Dr Alister McGrath and Professor Robert Wright
  3 Aug. 1987