James Ridout Winchester (March 15, 1852 – October 27, 1941) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas, serving from 1912 to 1931, succeeding William Montgomery Brown.

He studied at Washington and Lee University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1874.

[1] He married Elizabeth Atkinson Lee in Clarke, Virginia, on April 17, 1878.

He then became rector of Calvary Church in Memphis, Tennessee in 1905, and served until 1911.

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