John Christopherson (died December 1558) was learned Catholic priest, chaplain and confessor to Queen Mary I of England, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1553–1558), Dean of Norwich (1554–1557) and Bishop of Chichester (1557–1558)—all during the reign of Queen Mary (1553–1558).
He was a member of a commission under direction from Stephen Gardiner to reintroduce Catholicism to the University of Cambridge.
He had been put under house arrest following his definition of Protestantism as "a new invention of new men and heresies" on 27 November 1558, preached in response to a sermon at Paul's Cross.
He died a month later, in late December 1558, either the 22nd or the 28th, and was buried at Christchurch, Newgate Street, where he had held a lease to the Prior's lodging and two gardens.
[3] He is particularly known for writing a tragedy on Jephthah (based on Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis), which is noteworthy for being the only Tudor play written in Greek.