John Wright

John Charles Wright (19 August 1861 – 24 February 1933) was a British-born Anglican bishop in Australia. He was an Archbishop of Sydney and was seen by some as responsible for reducing the influence of Anglo-Catholicism in the Diocese of Sydney.

Wright was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of the Reverend Joseph Farrall Wright (1827–1883), vicar of Christ Church, Bolton, and co-founder of Bolton Wanderers Football Club, and his wife Harriet, née Swallow.

Immediately before Wright came to Sydney he was "permanent chairman" of the Anglican Evangelical Group Movement – at that time an important liberal Evangelical society of clergy formed in 1906. Stephen Judd notes that he "believed in a much wider spectrum of opinion in the Anglican Church" and it is significant that he quickly appointed moderate Evangelicals Albert Talbot as Dean of Sydney and David Davies as principal of Moore College.

It was Wright who banned the eucharistic vestments from use in churches in Sydney. He was criticised for this by Anglo-Catholics, but he conscientiously believed that the wearing of these was contrary to the law of the Church of England.