St. James Evangelical
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Start

End

Tenure

Pastor

1

1769

?

Johann Berger*

2

1769

1771

2

J. Peter Muhlenberg

3

1772

1777

5

Christian Streit

4

1777

1781

4

Rev. Brass

5

1781

1790

9

John F. Ernst

6

1792

1812

20

John C. Yeager

7

1812

1815

3

Christian Endress

8

1815

1837

22

John P. Hecht

9

1837

1847

10

Daniel Miller

10

1847

1851

4

John McCron

11

1851

1865

14

John K. Plitt

12

1865

1868

3

Mathias Richards

13

1868

1880

12

Samuel Henry

14

1880

1883

3

Frances T. Hoover

15

1883

1910

27

Thomas Pritchard

16

1910

1949

39

David S. Hafer

17

1949

1952

3

C. Edgar Koehnlein

18

1952

1962

10

Edwin L. Ehlers

19

1962

1990

28

Walter E. Wrede

20

1991

2005

14

Gerald P. Kramer

21

2010

John H. Van Haneghan


Longest tenure: 39 years
David S. Hafer (1910 - 1949)

2nd Longest tenure: 28 years
Walter Wrede (1962 - 1990)

Shortest tenure: 2 years
Peter Muhlenberg (1770 - 1772)

Mean average tenure: 12 years

Median average tenure: 10 years

Modal average tenure: 3 years
Christian Endress (1812 - 1815)
Mathias Richards (1865 - 1868)
Frances Hoover (1880 - 1883)
C. Edgar Koehnlein (1949 - 1952)

* Johann Berger was never ordained "but was deemed competent to officiate as reader and expounder of the scriptures" in the New World. -- church source

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