John William Alexander Howe (14 July 1920 – 26 April 2001) was an Anglican bishop, who served as the eighth Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, and became the Secretary-General of the Anglican Consultative Council.
[2] He was ordained deacon in 1943, and priest in 1944,[3] and began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at All Saints, Scarborough.
He resigned the see in 1969[5] in order to take up a senior position in London as Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion on 1 May 1969.
[6] In that role, Howe was part of establishing the permanent Anglican Consultative Council.
[7] In the process, the post of Executive Officer was ended, but at the first meeting of the ACC in 1971, Howe was elected to become the first Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council, a substantially similar role[8] in which he served until 31 December 1982.