Rectors of Christ Church

A comprehensive list of our forty-one rectors

1733                                Henry Herbert
1733-35                         Samuel Quincy
1736-37                        John Wesley
1738,1739-40            George Whitefield
1738-39                        William Norris
1740                               William Metcalf (appointed, but died before he could depart England for the colony of Georgia)
1741-42                         Christopher Orton
1744-45                         Thomas Bosomworth
1745-66                         Bartholomew Zouberbuhler
1767-71                         Samuel Frink
1771-73                         Timothy Lowten
1773-75                         Haddon Smith
1776                                John Rennie
1779-80                         Edward Jenkins
1780-81                         James Brown
1781-82                         John Stuart
1783?-84                       John Holmes
1786-87                         William Nixon
1787-92                         Benjamin Lindsay
1793-95                         Edward Ellington
1804-07                        William Best
1810-14                         John Bartow
1815-22                         Walter Cranston
1822-27                        Abiel Carter
1827-51                         Edward Neufville
1851-52                         Abram Beech Carter
1852-59, 1861-66     Stephen Elliott
1860                               L. P. Balch
1867-68                        Charles H. Coley (having served also as Bishop Elliott’s assistant since 1861)
1868-72                        John M. Mitchell
1873-74                       John W. Beckwith
1874-77                       George D.E. Mortimer
1877-88                       Thomas Boone
1889-1905                   Robb White
1906-14                        Francis Brown
1915-23                        John Durham Wing
1924-44                        David Cady Wright
1945-67                        Francis Bland Tucker
1967-73                       Warren E. Haynes
1973-90                       George M. Maxwell
1992-2006                  Marcus B. Robertson
2008-present             Michael S. White