James Pernette deWolfe (April 7, 1896 – February 6, 1966) was the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island.

deWolfe attended Kenyon College where he was a founding member of Lambda chapter of Sigma Pi fraternity and its first president.

While attending Bexley Hall, he volunteered his time to Sigma Pi as chairman of the national fraternity’s first song committee.

While in Houston he started a nursery, a social settlement for young people, a clinic for mothers, a family service bureau, and a home for elderly women.

[13] One of his assignments in his first year as bishop was to ordain his son, James P. deWolfe Jr., as a priest on May 22, 1943.

[14] As bishop some of his accomplishments were the establishment of a diocesan youth center at Wading River, missionary work among Hispanics and the Brooklyn waterfront, the reorganization of St. John’s Hospital, the organization of a second diocesan hospital in Smithtown, the founding of the school of Theology at Garden City, and added buildings to the cathedral’s schools of St. Paul and St.

[1][11] The youth center at Wading River would later be named Camp deWolfe in his honor.

[17] In 1957 he closed Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Downtown Brooklyn after ten years of an intra-parish feud.

William Howard Melish’s work with the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.

[19] In 1962, he was criticized for the segregationist policies of St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn where he was president of the board of managers.