Moruya was originally a "Mission District" within Sydney Diocese

Various itinerant or Church School ministries, (the

Church School seems to have continued until 1878),  including:

1857 - 1862                David Evans Jones, Snr

1862 - 1864                Deacon HH Brittten

Goulburn Diocese established in 1863

Moruya Parish, inc Bodalla and Cobargo est. 1864

1865                           John Lister Knight

1865                           David Evans Jones, Snr

1866                           David Evans Jones, Jnr                                         

1866 - 1871                Alfred T Puddicombe

                               He was the first appointed Rector

1871 - 1877                James Graham Love

1878 - 1880                Herbert E Taylor

Bodalla separate parish 1880

1880 - 1884                Frederick Davis

1884 - 1885                HE Thomson

1885 - 1892               Edward J Spencer

!892 - 1893                WM White

                                            Locum Tenens

1894 - 1896                William J Ellis

1898 - 1904                JH Williams

1904 - 1913               Samuel Hart

1914 - 1916                Arthur George Rix

1917 - 1918                RR Macartney-Noake

1918 - 1928                George A Sanders

                                           2 gaps for sick leave

1924                            Joseph Campbell

                                           Priest-in -Charge

1925                            E Harvey Walker

                                           Locum Tenens

1925                            F Johnson

                                             Deacon ?

1928                            WS McLeod

                                            Acting Rector

1929 - 1930                Thomas A Gair

1930 - 1936                GAM (Monty) Nell

1936 - 1951                George E Wheeler

1952 - 1953                John Davies

1954 - 1956                Prosper  Pickburn

1956 - 1959                Dudley J Ross

1959 - 1964                James Tetlow

1964 - 1972                Warren E Hall

1972 - 1976                William Charles Price

                                           With a gap

1974 - 1975                C Bosser

                                            Acting Rector

1976 - 1977                Michael F Cockayne 

                                           Locum Tenens

1978 - 1980                Edgar Rolfe

1979                            Malcolm Cohen 

                                          Assistant

Bateman's Bay separate parish in 1982

St Andrew's, Tuross Head, transferred from

Bodalla parish to Moruya 1982

1981 - 1988                Peter Bertram

1988 - 1990                Paul Cook

1990                            Bill Devonshire 

                                          Locum Tenens

1990 - 1995                Canon William E (Bill) Wright

1995 - 2002                David Hill

2003 - 2007                Mark Sweeney

2007 - 2008                Margaret L Streatfield 

                                                        Acting Rector

2008 -  2010               Robin Lewis-Quin

2010                           Bishop George Browning

                                           Locum Tenens

For further information on the history of the parish, contact Mr Denis Woodhams at:

                                                                         woodhams@acr.net.au