James Chapman (1799–1879) was the first Anglican Bishop of Colombo, in British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1845 to 1861.

[2] He was made deacon in Ely in 1824 and ordained priest the next year in Chichester.

[3] He became a Fellow of King's College, one of the Masters of Eton, and Evening Lecturer at Windsor.

[2] In 1834, he was appointed to the Rectory of Dunton Wayletts, in Essex, the patronage of which was with King's College.

[2] During the mid-1860s, he undertook several bishop's duties (including ordinations of deacons/priests and consecrations of church buildings) in the Diocese of Exeter.