Historic Christ Church Episcopal is a member of the Diocese of Georgia and The Episcopal Church. Significant dates for the church include:

1733 – The Colony of Georgia and Christ Church are founded.
1736 – The Rev. John Wesley becomes the minister. While here, he starts America’s first Sunday School and publishes the first English hymnal for use in America.
1738 – The Rev. George Whitefield becomes the minister.
1740 – Mr. Whitefield lays the cornerstone for Bethesda Orphanage.
1744 – Cornerstone of the first Christ Church building is laid by Mr. Bosomworth.
1750 – The first church building is dedicated. Also, on July 7, a black woman is baptized at Christ Church. It is believed to be the first baptism of a black person in Savannah.
1758 – The cemetery, now known as Colonial Park, is vested in Christ Church.
1796 – The church building is burned in the great fire, which destroys most of the city.
1803 – The second church building is begun.
1804 – A great hurricane destroys the unfinished second building.
1815 – The second church building is consecrated.
1837 – The second church building is razed.
1840 – The third and present church building is consecrated.
1841 – The first Bishop of Georgia, The Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, is consecrated in Christ Church. In that same year Bishop Elliott divides the parish to create a new congregation. All families south of Oglethorpe Avenue will be members of the new parish to be known as “St. John’s.”
1908 – Frederick F. Reese is consecrated the fourth Bishop of Georgia.
1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, dies and is buried from Christ Church.
1964 – Henry I. Louttit, Jr., ninth Bishop of Georgia, is ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests at Christ Church by The Rt. Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart.
1968 – Memorial service held in memory of The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1969 – G. Paul Reeves is consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Georgia.
1973 – The funeral of Albert Rhett Stuart, sixth Bishop of Georgia, is held on Holy Saturday. In that same year the Bishop of London attends the Sesquicentennial of the Diocese of Georgia and dedicates the new organ in Christ Church. Also, George M. Maxwell becomes the thirty-ninth Rector.
1976 – Johnny Mercer, America songwriter and winner of four Academy Awards, dies and is buried from Christ Church.
1980 – The Rev. Charles L. Hoskins, then Rector of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Savannah, and author of Black Episcopalians in Georgia: Strife, Struggle and Salvation, baptizes ten children at Christ Church on July 7 using the same rite of baptism from 1750.
1984 – Harry W. Shipps is consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Georgia on the Feast of the Epiphany. Francis Bland Tucker, our thirty-seventh Rector, dies and is buried from Christ Church.
1985 – Susan W. Harrison is ordained to the Sacred Order of Deacons, the first woman to hold this position in the Diocese of Georgia, by The Rt. Rev. Harry W. Shipps.
1998 – Roger K. Warlick, author of As Grain Once Scattered: The History of Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia, 1733-1983, dies and is buried from Christ Church.
2001 – Malcolm R. Maclean, Mayor of Savannah from 1960-66 and former Diocesan Chancellor, dies and is buried from Christ Church.
2008 – Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church, preaches and celebrates at Christ Church Episcopal on September 14, Holy Cross Day. Earlier in the year, on July 1, Michael S. White becomes Christ Church Episcopal’s forty-first Rector.