John Adams Pinckney (March 8, 1905 – December 7, 1972) was an American prelate of the Episcopal Church, who served as the forth Bishop of Upper South Carolina.
He studied at College of Charleston between 1925 and 1926, and then at the DuBose Middle School in Summerville, South Carolina between 1926 and 1928.
[1] Pinckney was ordained deacon in June 1931 and priest in May 1933 by the Bishop of South Carolina Albert Sidney Thomas.
[4] On May 7, 1963, Pinckney was elected on the second ballot, as the fifth Bishop of Upper South Carolina, during the annual convention of the diocese, held in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Columbia, South Carolina.
[5][6] He was consecrated on September 18, 1963, in Trinity Cathedral, by Bishop M. George Henry of Western North Carolina.