page_title: St James' Church, Sydney
section_title: Past and present clergy
hierarchical_section_title: St James' Church, Sydney / Worship and ministry / Past and present clergy
caption_attribution_description: English: The rector leaving the front of St James' Church, Sydney after a wedding
context_page_description: St James' Church, commonly known as St James', King Street, is an Australian heritage-listed Anglican parish church located at 173 King Street, in the Sydney central business district of the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales. Consecrated in February 1824 and named in honour of St James the Great, it became a parish church in 1835. Designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, St James' is part of the historical precinct of Macquarie Street which includes other early colonial era buildings such as the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks.
  The church remains historically, socially and architecturally significant. The building is the oldest one extant in Sydney's inner city region. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 3 September 2004; and was listed on the Register of the National Estate, and has been described as one of the world's 80 greatest man-made treasures.
context_section_description: Samuel Marsden delivered the first sermon on 6 July 1824. In 1836 the first (and only) Bishop of Australia, William Grant Broughton, was installed at St James' as there was still no cathedral. Broughton regularly officiated at St James' as at the first ordination of an Anglican priest in Australia (T. Sharpe) on 17 December 1836.
  The rector of St James' is assisted by associate rectors (it was not until the 1890s that the title "rector" was used). The current (sixteenth) rector is Andrew Sempell and the associate rector is the John Stewart.
  1824–1836 Richard Hill
  1836–1838 Robert Cartwright
  1838–1840 George Napoleon Woodd
  1840–1884 Robert Allwood
  1885–1895 Henry Latimer Jackson
  1896–1910 William Carr Smith
  1910–1916 W.F. Wentworth-Sheilds
  1917–1937 Philip Arthur Micklem
  1938–1955 Edwin John Davidson
  1956–1962 William John Edwards
  1962–1975 Frank Leslie Cuttriss
  1976–1983 Howard Charles Hollis
  1984–1997 Peter John Hughes
  1997–2001 Richard Hurford
  2001–2009 Peter Walter Kurti
  2010–present Andrew John Sempell
caption: The 16th rector in King Street outside the church (2014)
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