John Robert Arnold, OBE (born 1 November 1933) is a retired Anglican priest and author.

Arnold was educated at Christ's Hospital and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

[1] He was ordained in 1960[2] and was then a curate at Holy Trinity, Millhouses, Sheffield then chaplain and lecturer at the University of Southampton.

From 1972 to 1978 he was secretary of the Board for Mission and Unity for the General Synod of the Church of England when he became Dean of Rochester.

[4] In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to the European Ecumenical Movement".