Our College Rectors
October 25 1589 - November 26 1589
Bartolomé de Sicilia SJ
November 27 1589 - June 24 1590
Pedro de Guzmán SJ
June 24 1590- September 1 1591
Juan López de Manzano SJ
September 1 1591 - December 31 1594
Rodrigo de Cabredo SJ
January 1 1595 - September 1596
Gonzalo del Río SJ
October 24 1600 - September 1602
Alonso Rodríguez de Toro SJ
October 24 1600 - September 1602
Antonio Vásquez SJ
September 1602 - 1603
Pedro Ruiz de Vallejo SJ - Dismissed in 1603 due to the trouble with the Benedictines. Juan de Olmedo took charge of the college in November 1603 but was not officially rector.
February 20 1604 - October 1606
Diego de Gamboa SJ
October 1606 - May 20 1607
Pedro Ruiz de Vallejo SJ is reinstated
May 20 1607 - February 25 1611
Juan de Párraces SJ
February 1611 - 1614?
Cristóbal Suárez SJ - The end of his term in office is not known for certain but is thought to have been 1614. Father Alonso Carrillo’s visit to the college led to the English taking a greater role in both teaching and governance. The names of the first English rectors – William Weston, Anthony Hoskins and John Blackfan – start to appear in the register at this time.
614 - April 9 1615
William Weston SJ - A priest famous for his skill as an exorcist, Father Weston became the first English rector of St Alban’s. Upon his death in 1615, he was buried in the original college chapel. In 2008 his skull was brought back to the college from England.
April 1615 - September 10 1615
Anthony Hoskins SJ becomes the second English rector of the college until his death in 1615.
September 1615 - November 1617
John Blackfan, one of the seminary’s first students, and author of the Blackfan Annals becomes the college’s third English rector.
1617 - February 1621
Juan Francisco de Benavides SJ - Vice-rector Thomas Sylvester then took charge of the college for several months.
October 1621 - October 1624
Francisco González SJ
October 1624 - October 1630
Francisco de Aguilar SJ
October 1630 - December 1632
Pedro de Ceniceros SJ
Start of 1633 - October 1633
Juan de Oribe SJ - Often absent, he retired due to ill-health.
October 1633 - December 1633
Sancho de Leguizamo SJ
December 1633 - September 1637
Hernando Cortés
September 1637 - February 1641
Diego Marín SJ
February 1641 - September 1646
Juan Díez de Isla SJ
September 1646 - February 1647
Francisco Juárez SJ
February 1647 - August 1649
Diego de Pangua SJ
August 1649
Father William Sankey takes charge of the college until the arrival of the new rector.
November 1649 - October 1652
José de Ayala SJ
October 1652 - November 1655
Ambrosio de Salamanca SJ
November 1655 - April 1659
Andrés Antonio de la Oyuela SJ
April 1659 - October 1662
Francisco de Liano SJ
October 1662 until his death in February 1664
Ignacio de Loyola SJ
March 1664 - November 1664
Diego de Montezuma SJ
November 1664 - April 1668
Gregorio de Mendiola SJ
April 1668 - June 1669
Andrés Reguera SJ
June 1669 - April 1671
Bartolomé de Occo SJ
April 1671 - December 1679
Manuel de Calatayud SJ
May 1680 - August 1683
Fernando de Haro SJ
August 1683 - September 1686
Fernando Navarrete SJ
September 1686 - September 1687
Teodosio Romay SJ
September 1687 - March 1691
Manuel Portocarrero SJ
March 1691 - March 1694
Juan de Fuentes SJ
March 1694 - September 1697
Domingo de Medina SJ
September 1697 - September 1716
Diego Alfonso de Sosa SJ
September 1716 - September 1718
Alonso de Zifuentes SJ
September 1718 - April 1722
Antonio Ossorio SJ
April 1722 - January 1726
Francisco Vicente de la Torre SJ
January 1726 - September 1729
Bartolomé Florencio de Torres SJ
September 1729 - September 1731
Francisco Nieto SJ
November 1731 - May 1735
Juan Bautista Valcarce SJ
May 1735 until his death in February 1754
Pedro José Solano SJ
February 1754 - 1755
Joaquín Ignacio de Iturri SJ
May 1755 - January 1762
Father Rector, Jesuit Xavier Ignacio de Aguirre
January 1762 - August 1764
Francisco Texerizo SJ
August 1764 - February 1767
Francisco Torrano SJ
April 2 1767
The expulsion of the Jesuits
1768
Father Philip Mark Perry becomes the first secular English rector (d 1774).
1797
Father Joseph Shepherd – d 1796
1797
Father Thomas Taylor – d 1808
Until 1813
Richard Cowban took charge.
1813
Father William Irving, who found the college severely rundown on taking up the rectorship – d 1822.
1822 - 1825
Thomas Sherburne Sherburne
1825
Father Thomas Pilling takes charge of the college.
1826 - 1838
Father Rector Joseph Brown
Until 1845
Father James Standen is in charge and then Father John Guest takes over.
1846 - 1854
Father Thomas Sherburne resides in England while Father Guest looks after affairs in Spain. When Father Sherburne died in 1854, Father Guest continued to administer college affairs and was eventually appointed rector.
1863
Father John Guest – d April 1878.
1878 - 1904
Monsignor Charles Allen – he oversees the modernisation of the college, including the introduction of gas and electricity – d 1904.
1904 - 1906
Father William Wookey
1906 - 1911
Father Thomas Kennedy – d 1911.
1911 - 1915
Father James Thompson
1915 - 1924
Canon Michael John Burns
1924
Monsignor Edwin Henson – d March 3 1961.
1962 - 1975
Monsignor David Greenstock
1975 - 1984
Monsignor John Ryan
1984 - 1990
Monsignor Ronald Hishon
1990 - 1997
Monsignor Paul Smith
1997 - 2002
Monsignor Peter Dooling – d April 8 2011.
2002 - 2011
Monsignor Michael Kujacz
July 2011 - 2017
Monsignor John Joseph Pardo
July 2017 - July 2022
Canon Paul Farrer
July 2022
Father John Flynn