Ministers

From the beginning Ministers at South Rhine Church were shared with the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church
and with wider congregations since 1965 (see church timeline)

1864 – 1872      Rev James Roddick
1872 – 1879      Rev John Hall Angas
1880 – 1887      Rev Thomas Gray
1887 – 1891      Rev John Macauley
1892 – 1900      Rev H T Hull
1901 – 1904      Rev Robert Thomson
1905 – 1916      Rev Alexander McLennan
1917 – 1923      Rev J A Munro Forde
1923 – 1927      Rev F Souter
1927 – 1930      Rev J Craigen
1930 – 1935      Rev W Laity
1936 – 1941      Rev J Lloyd
1941 – 1947      Rev David Chapman
1948 – 1956      Rev George Howland
1958 – 1960      Rev Sam McCollum
1961 – 1964      Rev Harry Lockett
1965 – 1970      Rev Keith Batt  
1970 – 1977     
Rev Brian Smith
1970 – 197?      Rev Alfred Maeers
1971 – 1976      Rev Alf Ellison
1975 – 1980      Rev Dean Brooks
1978 – 1983      Rev Alf Dixon
1981 – 1986      Rev Ian Parsons
1984 – 1988      Rev Rob Williams
1988 – 19??       Rev Jim Dawes
1988 – 19??       Rev Edward White
2001 – 2010      Rev Rod Mann

Note:  In the 1970s the Church became part of the Barossa United Parish served by ministers based at Angaston and Nuriootpa.
In the 1990s it moved to the Murray Plains Parish with the Minister based at Mannum.

References
Reg Butler (1993) The Quiet Waters By: The Mount  Pleasant District 1843-1993
Robert Scrimgeour (1986) Some Scots Were Here: A History of the Presbyterian Church in South Australia

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