John Stopford (priest)

John Norman Stopford was an Anglican Archdeacon in Zimbabwe in the second half of the  20th century.

Stopford was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and ordained in 1933. After a curacy in Crewe, he was at the Wreningham Mission, Zimbabwe from 1936 to 1939; Daramombe from 1939 to 1944; and Bulawayo from 1947 to 1954. He was Archdeacon of Matabeleland, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Matabeleland from 1954 to 1962.