John Bernard MacGinley (August 19, 1871 – October 18, 1969) was an Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

[1] His father served as principal of Croagh National School, and was author of General Biology and several works on folklore and scenery of western Donegal.

[1] He then served as a curate at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until 1898, when he became professor of Latin and moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.

[3] He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 10 from Archbishop Diomede Falconio, with Bishops John Edmund Fitzmaurice and Edmond Francis Prendergast serving as co-consecrators.

[3] He later resigned due to ill health on September 26, 1932; he was appointed Titular Bishop of Croae on the same date.