{"id":2373,"date":"2025-03-07T22:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/?page_id=2373"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:24:03","slug":"clergy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/?page_id=2373","title":{"rendered":"The Clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table id=\"gradient-style\">\n<thead><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1702-1703<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>George Keith<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1703-1713<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Alexander Innes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1733-1737<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>John Forbes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1737-1746<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>John Miln<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1746-1751<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Thomas Thompson<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1751-1775<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Samuel Cooke<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1788-1799<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Henry Waddell<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1799-1806<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Andrew Fowler<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1809-1824<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>John Croes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1824-1830<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Eli Wheeler<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1830-1863<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Harry Finch<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1863-1866<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Thomas J. Taylor<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1866-1875<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Wiliam B. Otis<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1875-1898<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Benjamin Franklin<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1898-1906<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>William N. Baily<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1906-1919<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Frederick P. Swezey<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1919-1922<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Alanson Q. Bailey<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1922-1942<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Carroll M. Burck<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1942-1947<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Robert D. Smith<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1947-1948<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>J. Lawrence Ware<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1948-1959<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Theodore E. A. LeVan<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1959-1964 <\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Anselm Broburg<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1964-1970<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Ronald G. Albury<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1971-1988<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Edward M. Story<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1988-1995<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong> James E. LaSage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><strong>1997-2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong> Lisa S. Mitchell<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<div class=\"subfootercopy\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"footer\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pageLinkLeft\" style=\"float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/?page_id=2849\"> Stained-Glass Windows<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"pageLinkRight\" style=\"float: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/?page_id=2729\">History Overview <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1702-1703 George Keith 1703-1713 Alexander Innes 1733-1737 John Forbes 1737-1746 John Miln 1746-1751 Thomas Thompson 1751-1775 Samuel Cooke 1788-1799 Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2373\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchshrewsbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}