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Another legacy of the late Harper’s rectorship was expanding access to worship at St. John’s, which had no Black members in 1960, according to Grimmett.

From Washington Times • Jul. 9, 2020

There is nothing dramatic about St. Philip's rise to first place; its growth has been solid and steady under the rectorship of the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell.

From Time Magazine Archive

What then would become of St.Paul's? Comfort to St. Paul's men was their knowledge that in 1921 Dr. Drury had been offered the rectorship of Trinity Church, Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not a suitable vocation, and he gladly accepted the rectorship of the Aegidien-gymnasium in Nuremberg, a post which he held from December 1808 to August 1816.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various