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PASTORS OF ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH

Pastors of the Preaching Station which led to the formation of St. John's

1872-1873 Pastor Heinrich Christoph Senne of Alma, Kansas

1873-1874 Pastor P. F. Germann of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas


Pastors serving St. John's

The pastors who are numbered and whose names are in bold print were called pastors of the congregation

1. 1874-1876 Pastor P. F. Germann (continued), now of Topeka

   1876-1876 Student August Biewend of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri

2. 1876-1877 Pastor W. A. Weissmann (of the Ohio Synod)

    1877-1879 Vacancy Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Mueller of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

and

    1878-1878 Student D. Stemmermann, as vicar for Pastor F. W. Mueller

3. 1879-1889 Pastor Friedrich Pennekamp

    1889-1889 Vacancy Pastor F. W. John of Kansas City

4. 1889-1897 Pastor Carl Friedrich Graebner

    1897-1897 Vacancy Pastor C. Vetter of Atchison, Kansas

5. 1897-1905 Pastor H. Friedrich Eggert

6. 1905-1907 Pastor Theodore Bundenthal

    1907-1907 Vacancy Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Pennekamp

7. 1907-1930 Pastor Peter Dietrich Mueller

and

8. 1927-1930 Pastor Theodor Heinrich Mueller, son of the preceding

9. 1930-1954 Pastor George John William Hoyer

10. 1954-1978 Pastor Julius Godfrey Jacobsen (died in office)

      1978-1979 Vacancy Pastor Justin J. Burns, Jr., of Topeka

11. 1979-1999 Pastor Theodore Louis Staudacher, Senior Pastor

and

12. 1980-    Pastor Roger Melvin Goetz, Kantor

and

13. 1998-     Pastor Glenn Ray Bitter, Visitation Pastor

and

14. 1999-     Pastor Peter Kristoff Lange, Senior Pastor

15. 2003-2006 Pastor Christopher Barry Stoltz, Kantor

                                    and

16. 2007-2011   Pastor Thomas Clinton Stark, Associate Pastor