Christ Church Parish Rectors & Ministers (1650 - Present)

William White, America's 1st Presiding Bishop 1836

• Alexander Cooke 164?-1653

• Thomas Sax 1653-1654

• Samuel Cole 1657-1658

• Unknown 1659-1664

• Richard Morris 1664-1666

• Vacant 1667-1668

• John Sheppard 1668-1683

• Michael Zyperus * (Supply) 1683

• John Davis (Supply) 1683

• Duell Pead 1683-1690 (Returned to England)

Portrait of Duell Pead as a young chap and King's Scholar, London, at age 16.

• Thomas Marston (Supply) 1690

• Mr. Booker (Supply) 1690

• Samual Gray (Supply) 1690

• Mr. Clack (Supply) 1690

• Matthew Lidford 1691-1692

• Samual Gray 1693-1698

• Robert Yates 1699-1703

• Bartholomew Yates, Sr. 1704-1734

• John Reade 1734-1736

• Emanuel Jones (Supply) 1736-1737

• Bartholomew Yates, Jr. 1737-1767

• John King (Supply) 1767

• Samual Klug 1767-1794

• M. Smith 1800 (Appears in records only once.)

• Henry Heffernan 1795-1814 (Last rector before 1841)

  
  

• Christ Church was abandoned 1821-1841 and was without a minister 1815-1841.

• William Yates Rooker 1841 (Seminary graduate)

• W. H. Goode 1843 (Seminary graduate)

  
  

• Bishop John Johns consecrated the re-opened church June 11, 1843.

  
  

• George S. Carraway 1845-1857

• Joseph R. Jones 1857-1859

• McDonnall (Interim) 1859

• Claudius R. Hains 1859-1864

• John McGill 1865-1866

• George S. May (Lay reader) 1867-1868

• Vacant 1869-1870

• James Hervey Hundley 1871-1880

• No report 1880

• Beverly D. Tucker (Interim) 1881

• H. L. Derby (Interim) 1881

• William B. Lee (Interim) 1881

• John Moncure (Interim) 1882

• A. J. Willis 1883-1884

• Frank Stringfellow 1885-1890

• No report 1891

• No report 1892-1895

• J. Hervey Hundley 1896-1900

• Elliott B. Meredith 1901-1902

• H. J. Beagen 1903-1904

• R. C. Cowling 1905-1906

• No report 1907

• Edward Valentine Jones (Interim) 1908-1914

• W. S. Killy (Interim) 1915

• Wm. C. Brown (Interim) 1915

• R. Stanley Litsinger 1916-1919

• F. Ernest Warren 1919-1924

• A. Campbell Tucker 1925-1929

• W. D. Smith 1929-1942

• Vacant 1943

• S. J. Hutton (Interim) 1943

• David Lewis, Jr. 1944-1949 (Became Bishop of Virginia, 1989)

• Vacant 1949-1950

• Phillip Riggs (Supply) 1950

• Emmett H. Hoy, Jr. 1950-1955

• Charles V. Covell 1956-1966

• Jere Bunting 1967-1987

• Dabney Wellford (Interim) 1987-1989

• Coval T. Grater (Interim) 1992

• Jesse Guy (Supply) 1992

• William R. Martin 1989-1994

• C. Thomas Holliday (Interim) 1994-1995

• R. Scott Krejci 1995-2003

• Anne West (Interim) 2004-2005

• Paul Andersen 2005-2015

• Stuart C. Wood 2015-2024

• Randi Hicks Rowe 2024 - Present

*Michael Zyperus (1683), who also served at Kingston Parish, was from Curacao in the Dutch West Indies and may have originally been a Dutch Reform preacher.

There have been a total of 44 permanent rectors since 1650. For 27 years, the rector post was vacant, some of those years the church was in desolation.

Before the American Revolution, temporary ministers were called "supply" and after the war, they were called "interim."

Gordon Eliot White