James Beattie "Jay" Magness (born October 21, 1946, in St. Petersburg, Florida)[1] is an American Anglican bishop and former military chaplain.
From 2010 to 2017 he served as Bishop Suffragan for the Armed Services and Federal Ministries of the Episcopal Church.
[2] He resigned from the Armed Forces and Federal ministries and stepped down from his bishopric in 2017;[4] he was succeeded as bishop by Carl Wright.
[5] He later served as assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia.
He was ordained by Bishop William G. Weinhauer on May 25, 1978, and commissioned in the Navy Chaplain Corps on July 2, 1979.