Rectors of Christ Church

Name Years
Richard James 1632 – 1637
Hampton (official position unknown) 1634 – 1635
William Cotton 1635 – 1636
Vacant or Ministers Unknown 1636 – 1721
Thomas Phillips 1721 – 1738
Henry Hunter 1739 – 1740
George Moore 1740 – 1741
John Bradford 1742 – 1744
Samuel Hunter 1744 – 1746
Hamilton Bell 1748 – 1748
John Thornton 1748 – 1754
Edward Dingle 1754 – 1758
Patric Hamilton (lay reader) 1758 – 1766
Samuel Howard 1766 – 1768
John Patterson 1768 – 1769
Matthias Harris 1769 – 1773
John Andrews 1773 – 1773
Thomas Lendrum 1773 – 1775
William Hanna 1775 – 1778
Vacant 1778 – 1806
John Hooker Reynolds 1806 – 1809
Vacant  1809 – 1826
Matthias Harris   1826 – 1830
Vacant  1830 – 1839
Norris Marshall Jones 1839 – 1844
William Walsh 1844 – 1846
Cyrus Waters 1846 – 1846
John Augustine Thompson 1847 – 1865
James Moore 1865 – 1866
Joseph Newton Wattson 1869 – 1872
P.D. Thompson  1874 – 1892
Charles S. Spencer 1893 – 1906
William N. Weir  1907 – 1912
Mathews R. Bowie 1912 – 1914
W. H. Darbie  1915 – 1917
Hunter Davidson  1917 – 1921
Walter C. Eastburn 1923 – 1926
Alward Chamberlin 1927 – 1932
Matthews S. Higgins  1933 – 1940
Lay Readers 1940 – 1947
Francis K. McNaul, Jr.  1947 – 1949
Vernon Lane 1950 – 1952
James D. Cummins (supply) 1952 – 1953
Hugh V. Clary  1953 – 1960
Robert Clarke  1960 – 1972
Robert A. Gourlay  1972 – 1988
James J. “Bud” Shand  1989 – 2003
David Robert Green  2004 – 2013
Mark S. Delcuze  2013 – 2023