| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| James M. Adams Jr. | |
| Bishop of Western Kansas | |
| Church: | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese: | Western Kansas |
| Term: | 2002–2010 |
| Elected: | October 2001 |
| Successor: | Michael Pierce Milliken |
| Ordination: | May 1, 1980 |
| Consecration: | March 16, 2002 |
| Consecrated By: | William E. Smalley |
| Birth Date: | 9 June 1948 |
| Previous Post: | Rector of Shepherd of the Hills, Lecanto, FloridaRector of Trinity Episcopal, El Dorado, Kansas |
James Marshall Adams junior (called Jim; born June 9, 1948) was the fourth Bishop of Western Kansas.
Adams was born in El Paso, Texas.[1] In 1971 he graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education with emphasis on mathematics and business.[1] He married his wife, Stacy, in August 1971; they have one child.[2] Receiving his Master of Divinity from the General Theological Seminary in 1979, he was ordained a deacon on August 6, 1979.[2] He served at St. Michael & All Angels Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was chaplain at the New Mexico State Girls School.[1] He was then curate and later assistant rector of Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe.[1]
He is currently a member of Communion Partners, an Episcopalian group which opposed the 77th General Episcopal Convention's decision to authorize the blessing of same-sex marriages in 2012.[3] The measure to allow the blessing of same-sex unions won by a 111–41 vote with 3 abstentions.
Adams was ordained a priest on May 1, 1980, and elected fourth Bishop of Western Kansas in October 2001.