John Wesley Lord (August 23, 1902 – October 8, 1989) was an American bishop of the Methodist Church, elected in 1948.
Lord was active in the Civil Rights Movement, he marched with Martin Luther King, he met in the White House with John F. Kennedy, and he pushed for the racial integration of the Methodist Church.
He was a vice president of the National Council of Churches and was active in the World Health Organization.
John Wesley Lord was received on-trial in the Newark Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and ordained Deacon, April 1929.
John Wesley Lord was elected to the episcopacy of the Methodist Church by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in 1948.