Rectors of the Cathedral
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1850-1870 - Rev. Jeramiah F. O'Neill, Sr.
Died July 12, 1870
1870-1872 - Rev. John F. Kirby
Died April 4, 1872
1872-1877 - Rev. Michael Cullinan
Died February 23, 1877
1877-1896 - Msgr. Edward Cafferty
Died May 16, 1922
1896-1900 - Rev. Benjamin J. Kiely
7th Bishop of Savannah, June 3, 1900
Resigned February 13, 1922
Died June 17, 1925
1900-1907 - Rev. Robert F. Kennedy
Died March 12, 1930
1907-1918 - Rev. Godfrey F. X. Schadewell
Died July 16, 1922
1918-1919 - Rev. James A. Kane
Later a Msgr. Died January 29, 1939
1919-1922 - Rev. Joseph D. Mitchell
Later a Msgr. Died January 2, 1965
1922-1928 - Rev. Timothy A. Foley
Pastor - B.S.C. Savannah, July 12, 1928
Joined Order of Friars Minor 1932
Died 1944
1928-1938 - Msgr. Joseph F. Croke
Died October 19, 1951
1938-1967 - Msgr. T. James McNamara
Died October 28, 1970
1967-1970 - Rev. Lawrence A. Lucree
1970-1972 - Rev. J. Kevin Boland
13th Bishop of Savannah
April 18, 1995
1972-1974 - Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke
Died September 17, 1998
1974-1976 - Rev. Lawrence A. Lucree
1976-1981 - Msgr. Felix G. Donnelly
Died January 12, 2002
1981-1988 - Rev. Herbert J. Wellmeier
Died October 18, 2005
1988-1996 - Rev. William. F. Simmons
1996 - present - Msgr. William O. O'Neill
