J. Terry Steib

On August 23, 2016, Pope Francis accepted Steib's letter of resignation as bishop of Memphis.

On December 21, 2015, the Memphis City Council renamed a portion of Central Avenue as J. Terry Steib Lane in honor of the bishop.

In June 2005, Steib expressed his views on outreach to gays and lesbians in his pastoral letter "This Far by Faith":

On September 9, 2005, a man sued Steib and the Diocese of Memphis in a case involving Paul St. Charles, a priest who led the Catholic Youth Organization in the diocese. The plaintiff accused St. Charles of molesting him at a drive-in movie when he was an altar server in the 1970's. Steib had ordered a diocese review of the allegations in 2004 and on November 30, 2004, suspended St. Charles from ministry. In 2009, Steib responded to protests by other American bishops over the University of Notre Dame inviting President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement ceremony, due to Obama's position on abortion rights for women. Steib remarked:

In 2004, a Memphis man named Steib and the Diocese of Memphis in a sexual abuse lawsuit. The plaintiff claimed that Juan Carlos Duran, a Bolivian priest at Church of the Ascension in Raleigh, Tennessee, had sexually abused him in 1999 when his was 14 years old. After a church investigation, Steib banned Duran from ministry and sent him to a center for treatment. Duran was eventually defrocked. In 2006. the Diocese settled the case for $2 million. When interviewed for a deposition in the case, Steib had these comments:

On March 24, 1993, John Paul II appointed Steib as bishop of the Diocese of Memphis. He was installed on May 5, 1993. One of Steib's primary accomplishments was reopening eight Catholic schools in Memphis that had been closed for financial reasons by a previous bishop. In an interview, Steib commented on this:

On December 6, 1983, Pope John Paul II appointed Steib as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and titular bishop of Fallaba. He was consecrated on February 10, 1984, by Archbishop John L. May, with Bishop George Gottwald and Bishop Charles Koester serving as co-consecrators.

In 1976, Steib was appointed as provincial superior of his order's Southern Province, holding that position for three years. In 1979, he became vice president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men.

On January 6, 1967, Steib was ordained as a priest of the Society of the Divine Word in Bay St. Louis. After his ordination, he started working at Saint Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis, teaching English, literature, religion, reading and speech to high school students. He also held a position as assistant dean of students at Saint Stanislaus from 1967 to 1969. In 1973, Steib graduated from Xavier University with a masters degree in guidance and counseling.

James Terry Steib, S.V.D. (born May 17, 1940) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Steib served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri from 1983 to 1993. He became the first African-American bishop of the Diocese of Memphis in Tennessee in 1993, serving there until 2016.