John Waine KCVO GCStJ (20 June 1930 - 29 December 2020) was Bishop of Chelmsford from 1986 to 1996; and previously Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich from 1978 to 1986, Bishop of Stafford, 1975–1978. He also served as Clerk of the Closet from 1989 to 1997, and in retirement served as a lay member on the Press Complaints Commission. At Petertide 1984 (1 July), as Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, he made his son, Stephen, a deacon, at St Edmundsbury Cathedral (by letters dimissory from the vacant See of Lichfield).