John Charles Roper (1858 – 26 January 1940^[1]) was an Anglican bishop in the Anglo-Catholic tradition^[2] in the first half of the 20th century.^[3]

Roper was educated at Keble College, Oxford.^[4]

Ordained in 1882,^[5] he began his ministry with a curacy at Herstmonceux and was then as chaplain of Brasenose College, Oxford.^[6]

In 1886, he was appointed Professor of Divinity at Trinity College, Toronto and also served as parish priest of St Thomas's Toronto.^[7] He was then Professor of Theology at the General Theological Seminary, New York City^[8] In 1912 he became the third Bishop of British Columbia^[9] and was translated to be the Bishop of Ottawa three years later,^[10] serving for 24 years^[11] - the last six as the Metropolitan of Ontario.^[12]