James Moss Stoney III (February 26, 1888 – July 19, 1965) was an Episcopal prelate who served as Bishop of New Mexico and Southwest Texas from 1942 to 1956.
Mary died in 1924 and he then married Nora Louise Green on February 16, 1926.
Between 1917 and 1921 he served at Holy Trinity Church in Clemson, South Carolina, and St Paul's Church in Pendleton, South Carolina, with the exception of the period between 1918 and 1919 where he served as a chaplain of the American Expeditionary Forces.
[5] He was consecrated on April 16, 1942, in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Anniston, Alabama, by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker.
[6][7] In 1952, the missionary district became a diocese and he became the first diocesan bishop of New Mexico and Southwest Texas.