1. John Wilson, Teaching Elder 1630-1633; Preaching Elder 1633-1667
John Eliot, (Interim) 1631-1632
2. John Cotton, Teaching Elder 1633-1652
3. John Norton, Pastor 1656-1663
4. John Davenport, Preaching Elder 1668-1670
5. James Allen, Teaching Elder 1668-1710
6. John Oxenbridge, Pastor 1670-1674
7. Joshua Moody, (Minister) Assistant 1684-1693
8. John Bailey, (Minister) Assistant 1693-1697
9. Benjamin Wadsworth, Minister 1696-1725
10. Thomas Bridge, Pastor 1705-1715
11. Thomas Foxcroft, Pastor 1717-1769
12. Charles Chauncy, Pastor 1727-1787
13. John Clarke, 1778-1798
14. William Emerson, 1799-1811
15. John Lovejoy Abbot, 1813-1814
16. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, 1815-1850
James Walker, ' Pulpit Supply' 1850-1853
17. Rufus Ellis, 1853-1886
18. Stopford Wentworth Brooke, 1886-1898
19. James Eells, 1898-1905
20. Charles Edwards Park, 1906-1946
21. Duncan Howlett, 1946-1958
Edward Daniels, Interim 1958-1960
22. Rhys Williams, 1960-2000
Doris Hunter, Interim 2000-2001
23. Stephen Kendrick, 2001-2021
*Rosemary Lloyd, Associate Minister, 2005-2013
* First 'called' female Minister
Amy Freedman, Consulting Minister, 2014-201
Tim House, Minister of Arts and Outreach 2015 -2019
Edmund Robinson, Interim 2021-2023
24. ** Stephanie May, 2023 -
           ** First 'called' female Senior Minister 
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
OFFICERS OF THE SECOND CHURCH IN BOSTON 
    Founded 1649          Merged with First Church, 1970                                                          
    
    1. John Mayo, 1655-1672
    
    2. Increase Mather, 1664-1723
    
    3. Cotton Mather, 1684-1728 
    
    4. Joshua Gee, 1723-1748 
    
    5. Samuel Mather, 1732-1741
    
    6. Samuel Checkley, 1747-1768 
    
    7. John Lathrop, 1768-1816
    
    8. Henry Ware, Jr., 1817-1830
    
    9. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1829-1832
    
    10. Chandler Robbins, 1833-1874
    
    11. Robert Laird Collier, 1876-1879
    
    12. Edward Augustus Horton, 1880-1892
    
    13. Thomas Van Ness, 1893-1913
    
    14. Samuel Raymond Maxwell, 1914-1919
    
    15. Eugene Rodman Shippen, 1920-1930
    
    16. Dudley Hayes Farrell, 1930-1932
    
    17. DuBois LeFevre, 1933-1940
    
    18. Walton Elbert Cole, 1941-1945
    
    19. George Ernest Lynch, 1947-1949
    
    20. Clayton Brooks Hale, 1950-1957
    
    21. John Nicholls Booth, 1958-1963
    
    22. John Kohlsaat Hammon, 1964-1974