James Steptoe Johnston

The Right Reverend James Steptoe Johnston DD
Bishop Johnston
Province	The Episcopal Church
Diocese	West Texas
Installed	1888
Term ended	1916
Predecessor	Robert W.B. Elliott (as Bishop of the Missionary District of West Texas)
Successor	William Theodotus Capers
Orders
Ordination	1871 as priest
Personal details
Born	1843 Church Hill, Mississippi
Died	1924 San Antonio, Texas
Buried	St Mark's Episcopal Church, San Antonio, Texas
Spouse	Mary M. Johnston
Children	6
Alma mater	University of Virginia

James Steptoe Johnston (June 9, 1843–November 4, 1924) was an American Confederate veteran, preacher and educator. He served as a Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was the last bishop of the missionary district of west Texas and the first bishop of the Diocese of West Texas. He was also the founder of TMI — The Episcopal School of Texas, a private school in San Antonio, Texas.

James Steptoe Johnston was born in 1843 in Church Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi. He was the son of a local attorney and cotton planter. He was educated at Oakland College in Lorman, Mississippi. He attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, but left after one year to enlist in the Confederate States Army. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia in 1862. He saw action at the Second Battle of Bull Run and at Antietam before being captured by Union forces and spending one year as a prisoner of war. After the war, he studied law for a time and practiced as an attorney until 1867, and then began to read for the priesthood. He was ordained to diaconate in 1869 and to the priesthood in 1871 and served as a parish priest in Mississippi, Kentucky and Alabama. In 1888, he was elected as the second bishop of the missionary district of west Texas and was awarded a Doctorate of Divinity from the University of the South in the same year.