| Type: | Monsignor |
| John Edward Morris | |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Reverend Monsignor |
| Honorific-Suffix: | M.M. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1889 |
| Death Date: | 10 July 1987 (aged 98) |
| Ordination: | 13 June 1914 |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| See: | Peng-yang, Korea |
| Prefect of Peng-yang | |
| Term: | 1930-1936 |
| Term End: | 31 July 1936 |
John Edward Morris, M.M. (1889–1987) was an American Roman Catholic priest who served as the Prefect of Peng-yang in Korea from 1930 to 1936.
Born in the United States on 1 January 1889, Morris was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River in Massachusetts on 13 June 1914. He was solemnly professed a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America on 31 January 1921. He was appointed the Prefect of Peng-yang by Pope Pius XI on 1 April 1930. After six years of pastoral care to the prefecture, he resigned the post on 31 July 1936.
Morris died on 10 July 1987, aged 98.
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