John Ambrose Cyril Mantle (3 April 1946 – 29 November 2010) was the Bishop of Brechin in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Mantle was born in 1946 in Brechin, the son of an Episcopal (SEC) priest with a long ministry in Dundee and Aberdeen.

[1] John Mantle trained for ordination at the Edinburgh Theological College and was ordained deacon in Brechin diocese in 1969, and priest the following year.

In 1980, he became Chaplain of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, moving to become staff tutor and Vice Principal of the Canterbury School of Ministry in 1986.

Mantle did not begin life as an academic, and was ordained as a non-graduate, subsequently taking a degree in theology from the University of St Andrews.