John Warren Gladwin (born 30 May 1942) is a retired Anglican bishop.
[3] He studied theology and history at Churchill College, Cambridge (BA 1965, MA 1968).
[4] From 1967 to 1971, he served his curacy at St John the Baptist Parish Church, Kirkheaton in the Diocese of Wakefield.
[5] From 1977 to 1982, Gladwin was director of the Shaftesbury Project on Christian Involvement in Society:[5] the Shaftesbury Project was an "initiative by evangelical Christians to study their proper involvement in society and to provide a clear understanding of social action".
As the Bishop of Chelmsford, he sought to embrace the vast diversity of the second largest diocese in the Church of England.