Ministers of the Collegiate Church Corporation

The Succession of Ministers 1628-1998

I	Jonas Michaelius	1628-1631
II	Everardus Bogardus	1633-1647
III	Johannes Backerus	1647-1649
IV	Johannes Megapolensis	1649-1670
V	Samuel Dristius	1652-1673
VI	Samuel Megapolensis	1664-1669
VII	Wilhemus Van Niewenhuysen	1671-1682
VIII	Henricus Selyns	1682-1701
IX	Gualterus Du Bois	1699-1751
X	Henricus Boel	1713-1754
XI	Joannes Ritzema	1744-1784
XII	Lambertus De Ronde	1751-1784
XIII	Archibald Laidlie	1764-1779
XIV	John Henry Livingston	1770-1810
XV	William Linn	1785-1805
XVI	Gerardus Arense Kuypers	1789-1833
XVII	John Neilsen Abeel	1795-1812
XVIII	John Schureman	1809-1812
XIX	Jacob Brodhead	1809-1813
XX	Philip Milledoler	1813-1825
XXI	John Knox	1816-1858
XXII	Paschal Nelson Strong	1816-1825
XXIII	William Craig Brownlee	1826-1860
XXIV	Thomas De Witt	1827-1874
XXV	Thomas Edward Vermilye	1839-1893
XXVI	Talbot Wilson Chambers	1849-1896
XXVII	Joseph Tuthill Duryea	1862-1867
XXVIII	James Meeker Ludlow	1868- 1877
XXIX	William Ormiston	1870-1888
XXX	Edward Benton Coe	1879-1914
XXXI	David James Burrell	1891-1926
XXXII	Donald Sage Mackay	1899- 1908
XXXIII	Henry Evertson Cobb*	1903-1943
XXXIV	John Gerardus Fagg*	1903-1917
XXXV	Malcolm James MacLeod	1910-1940
XXXVI	Irving Husted Berg	1917-1936
XXXVII	Edgar Franklin Romig*	1922-1963
XXXVIII	Daniel A. Poling	1923-1930
XXXIX	Ernest Raymond Palen	1932-1973
XL	Norman Vincent Peale	1932-1993
XLI	Joseph Richard Sizoo	1936-1947
XLII	Henry Andrew Vruwink	1938-1946
XLIII	Daniel K. Poling	1947-
XLIV	Kenneth A. Gorsuch*	1973-
XLV	Harvey B. Hoffman	1974-1995
XLVI	Arthur Caliandro	1975-
XLVII	John Gregory Tweed	1979-1984
XLVIII	Ronald W. Cadmus	1981-1994
XLIX	Gordon R. Dragt	1985-
XLX	Charles D. Morris	1997-

*At various times clergy designated as "Assistant Minister" in the terms of the Charter have served as Pastors-in-charge of our several congregations. The names of those who have thus ministered are here given: John Hutchins (1892-1895); Henry Everston Cobb (1893-1903); John Geradus Fagg (1896-1903); Ferdinand Schuremann Schenck (1897-1899); Edgar Franklin Romig (19181922); Harvey W. Noordsy (1961-1968); and Kenneth A. Gorsuch (1969-1973).

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