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SUCCESSION OF THE STATED CLERKS OF
THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
GENERAL SYNOD and EVANGELICAL SYNOD
Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, General Synod [RPCNA,GS: 1833 - 1965]
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod [RPC,ES: 1965 - 1982]

Term	Name	Years of Service

1802 - 1836	John Black, D.D.	35
	Dr. Black was Clerk of the Reformed Presbyterian Church prior to the 1833 split, and for three years with the General Synod

1837 - 1873	John Niel McLeod, D.D.	37

1874 - 1885	David Steele, D.D., LL.D. (Also in 1870, when Dr. John Niel McLeod was moderator)	12

1886 - 1913	James Y. Boice, D.D.	28
	(From 1906-1907, John H. Kendall, D.D. was Clerk, when Dr. Boice was moderator and then retiring moderator)

1914 - 1918	James L. Chestnut, D.D.	5

1919 - 1941	L.A. Benson, D.D.	23

1942 - 1959	Robert W. Stewart, D.D.	18
	(1954, Samuel S.Ward, when Dr. Stewart was moderator)

1960 - 1970	Harry H. Meiners, Jr.	11
On April 11, 1965, the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, General Synod merged with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church [formerly the Bible Presbyterian Church, Columbus Synod], to become the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. Rev. Meiners continued on as Stated Clerk for the newly formed RPCES.

1971 - 1982	Paul R. Gilchrist, Ph.D.	12
On July 10, 1982, the RPC,ES came into the PCA through the process of joining and receiving. Dr. Gilchrist later served the PCA as its Stated Clerk for eleven years, from 1988 until 1998.