Clergy of St. Stephen’s Church

The names of those clergy who served as Rector are listed in bold.

The Rt. Rev. Nicholas Hamner Cobbs (1824 – 1839) – 1st Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama (click here for image)
The Rev. J. Somervell Marbury (1840 – 1845)
The Rev. Dr. Ovid A. Kinsolving (1846 – 1853)
The Rt. Rev. Richard H. Wilmer (1853 – 1858) – 2nd Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama (click here for image)
The Rev. William Henry Pendleton (1859 – 1872)
The Rev. James B. Craighill (1872 – 1873)
The Rev. George A. Gibbons (1873 – 1875)
The Rev. Albert Ware (1876 – 1880)
The Rev. Edmund W. Hubard (1880 –1889)
The Rev. Frank A. Meade (1891 –1892)
The Rev. J. W. Jones (1893 – 1895)
The Rev. Frederick Littleton LeMosy (1895 –1900)
The Rev. Randolph Royall Claiborne (1901 – 1904)
The Rev. Elliott Berger Meredith (1904 – 1907)
The Rev. Charles H. Scott (1909 – 1911)
The Rev. Ronald W. MacClintock (1941 – 1943)
The Rev. Marshall Milton (1943 – 1946)
The Rev. Charles F. Wulf (1948 – 1953)
The Rev. E. Dudley Colhoun, Jr. (1953 – 1956)
The Rev. John R. Campbell (1956 – 1958)
The Rev. Minor L. Rogers (1958 – 1961)
The Rev. John Marshall Frye (1961 – 1968)
The Rev. Louis Cappel Fischer III (1968 – 1988)
The Rev. James Drinard Smith (1989) *
The Rev. Ernest W. Johns (1989 – 1993)
The Rev. Dr. George M. Bean (1993 – 1994) *
The Rev. Dr. Ronny W. Dower (1994 – 1997)
The Rev. W. Ramsey Richardson (1997 – 1998) *
The Rev. Alan R. McLean (1998 – 2002)
The Rev. R. Christopher Heying (2004 – 2012)
The Rev. Brad Laycock (2012 – 2018) *
The Rev. Kate Bast (2018 – 2020) **
The Rev. Matthew W. Rhodes (2021 – present)

* Interim.
** Priest-in-Charge.