page_title: Groote Kerk, Cape Town
section_title: List of ministers
hierarchical_section_title: Groote Kerk, Cape Town / List of ministers
caption_attribution_description: English: The interior of Die Groote Kerk, Cape Town
context_page_description: The Groote Kerk is a Dutch Reformed church in Cape Town, South Africa. The church is South Africa's oldest place of Christian worship, built by Herman Schuette in 1841. The first church on this land was built in 1678. Willem Adriaan van der Stel laid the cornerstone for the church. It was replaced by the present building in 1841, but the original tower was retained. The pulpit is the work of Anton Anreith and the carpenter Jacob Graaff, and was inaugurated on 29 November 1789. The Groote Kerk lays claim to housing South Africa's largest organ, which was installed in 1954 and has 5917 pipes.
context_section_description: Joan van Arckel, 1665 - January 12, 1666 (died in office)
  Johannes de Vooght, February 26 to November 23, 1666
  Petrus Wachtendorp, November 1666 - December 15, 1667 (died in office)
  Adriaan de Vooght, 1667 - 1674
  Rudolpus Meerlandt, 1674 - 1675
  Petrus Hulsenaar, 1675 - 1677
  Johan Frederick Stumphius, May 1678 (not on the official church list)
  Johannes Overney, 1678 - 1687
  Johannes van Andel, 1687 - 1689 (returned to Batavia)
  Leonardus Terwoldt, 1689 - 1695 (returned to Batavia
  Hercules van Loon, 1695 - 1697
  Petrus Kalden, 1697 - 1708 (returned to Holland)
  Engelbertus Franciscus le Boucq, 1707 - 1708 (not on the official church list)
  Johannes Godefridus D'Ailly, 1708 - 1726
  Lambertus Slicher, 1723 - 1725
  Hendrik Beck, 1726 - 1731
  Franciscus le Seuer, 1729 - 1746
  Henricus Cock, 1732 - 1743
  Ruardus van Cloppenburgh, 1746 - 1748 (returned to Holland, died in 1751)
  Petrus van der Spuy, 1746 - 1752 (first South-African-born pastor)
  Henricus Kronenburg, 1752 - 1779 (27 years; retired; died the latter year)
  Gerhardus Croeser, 1754 - 1755
  Christiaan Benjamin Voltelen, 1755 - 1758
  Johannes Frederik Bode, 1758 - 1760
  Johannes Petrus Serrurier, 1760 - 1802 (47 years; retired; died February 3, 1819)
  Christiaan Fleck, 1781 - 1822 (41 years)
  Meent Borcherds, 1785 - 1786
  Helperus Ritzema van Lier, 1786 - 1793
  Abraham Kuys, 1794 - 1799
  Johan Heinrich von Manger, 1802 - 1839 (37 years; retired; died May 2, 1842)
  Johannes Christoffel Berrange, 1817 - 1827
  Dr. Abraham Faure, 1822 - 1867 (45 years)
  Johannes Spijker, 1834 - 1864 (30 years; retired; died May 21, 1865)
  Stephanus Petrus Heyns, 1839 - September 17, 1873 (36 years; died in office)
  Dr. Andrew Murray, 1864 - 1871
  Georg Stegmann jr., 1867 - 1880
  Dr. William Robertson, 1872 - 1879 (retired; died on November 24, 1879)
  Gilles van de Wall, 1874 - 1875
  Anton Daniël Lückhoff, 1875 - 1886 (New Church, later Tamboerskloof)
  Dr. Johannes Jacobus Kotzé, 1880 - 1899
  Abraham Isaac Steytler, 1881 - 1915 (34 years; retired; died December 17, 1922)
  Christoffel Frederic Jacobus Muller, 1887 - 1890 (New Church, later Tamboerskloof)
  Adriaan Moorrees, 1892 - 1895
  Charles Morgan (South Africa), 1893 - 1896 (Robben Island)
  Francis Xavier Roome, 1895 - 1937 (Sea Point, 42 years)
  Zacharia Johannes de Beer, 1895 - 1923 (Woodstock, until foundation of separate congregation, 28 years)
  Louis Hugo, 1897 - 1907 (Robben Island)
  Dr. Johannes Petrus van Heerden, 1899 - 1935 (36 years)
  Dr. Johannes du Plessis, 1899 - 1903 (Sea Point)
  Dr. Barend Johannes Haarhoff, 1905 - 1912 (Maitland, until foundation of separate congregation)
  Gerrit Johannes du Plessis, 1906 - 1912 (Observatory, until foundation of separate congregation)
  Johannes Stephanus Hauman, 1908 - 1918 (retired; died July 24, 1925; Robben Island)
  Daniel Gerhardus Malan, 1918 - 1921
  Pieter Basson Ackermann, 1918 - 1922 (Robben Island)
  Daniel Stephanus Burger Joubert, 1921 - 1925
  Willem Ferdinand Louw, 1922 - 1929 (Robben Island; retired; died August 16, 1933)
  Dr. Abraham van der Merwe, 1926 - 1966 (40 years)
  Jacobus Delarey Conradie, 1936 - 1967 (31 years)
  Pieter du Toit, 1938 - 1943
  Theunis Christoffel Botha Stofberg, 1940 – 1944 (student pastor)
  Johannes Gerhardus Janse van Vuuren, 1945 - 1954, December 7, 1963 - April 9, 1986 (32 years)
  Willem Adolf Landman, 1958 - January 29, 1979 (director of the Information Bureau; 21 years)
  Petrus Andries van Zyl, 1958 - 1960 (traveling missionary)
  Johannes Mattheus Delport, 1960 - 1963
  Jacobus van der Westhuizen, 1968 - 1997 (29 years)
  Erasmus Adriaan van Niekerk, 1972 - 1975
  Abraham Johannes Prins, 1975 - 1981
  Petrus Johannes Botes, April 26, 1981 - 2009 (28 years)
  Gideon de Wit, 2003 - 2015
  Johan Taute van Rooyen, 2011 - 2018
  Riaan de Villiers, 2014 - present
  Michiel Strauss, 2019 - present
caption: The interior
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