James Grant (Australian bishop)

James Alexander Grant AM is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Dean of Melbourne from 1985 to 1999.

Grant was educated at the University of Melbourne where he took a BA(Hons) in History. After further studies while a resident at the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne during 1957 and 1958, where he was awarded the Hey Sharp Prize in the Licentiate of Theology examination, he was ordained in 1959. He also obtained a Bachelor of Divinity from the Melbourne College of Divinity in 1968.

After curacies in Murrumbeena and Broadmeadows he was chaplain to the Archbishop of Melbourne from 1966 until his consecration as a coadjutor bishop in Melbourne in 1970. Grant was also Chaplain of Trinity College from 1970–75, and was Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, 1985–99. He has been Chairman of Lowther Hall CEGGS, Tintern CEGGS, Melbourne CEGGS, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, and the Mission to Streets and Lanes.

Grant collaborated with Geoffrey Serle in the publication of The Melbourne Scene (1957), is the author of the Centenary history of Trinity College, Perspective of a Century (1972) and a history of Anglicans in Victoria, Episcopally Led and Synodically Governed: Anglicans in Victoria 1803–1997 (2010). He received a Jubilee Medal in 1977 and a Centenary Medal in 2001 and in his retirement continued to serve Trinity College as its Bequest Officer. He is married to retired Victorian Chief Parliamentary Counsel Rowena Armstrong, AO, QC.