John Emory

John Emory (April 11, 1789 – 1835) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832.

His eldest son Robert, born in 1814, became a professor of Latin and Greek at Dickinson College in 1836 and later its president.

But his attention soon turned to the pulpit, against his father's protests, and he entered the Traveling Ministry of the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1810.

While a bishop, he continued his interest in the Book Concern, and during his management thereof was successful in paying-off all its debts, returning it to a solid foundation.

In 1817 in a pamphlet controversy, he used his literary weapons, not unsuccessfully, against Bishop White of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

In the controversy of 1828 which led to the founding of the Methodist Protestant Church he was the chief defender of existing M.E.

As a bishop he was largely influential in giving the Methodist Episcopal Book of Discipline its present form.