Reverend Andreas Rudman
He built Gloria Dei Church and convinced William Penn to give its early settlers 10,000 acres of land in Berks County.
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May 19, 2022
Reverend Nicholas Collin
Nicholas Collin was the last remaining priest of the Swedish mission and the first priest of the new American Gloria Dei.
November 27, 2018
Reverend John Dylander
The 1730’s through the 1780’s was an era dominated by controversy and efforts to maintain the Gloria Dei congregation in the face of strong competition from other denominations. The pastorship was vacant from 1733 to 1737, and the beloved John Dylander had to rebuild the congregation. He was largely successful in this before his untimely death in 1741. Like Rudman, he is buried in the church. Dylander was succeeded by Gabriel Nasman, whose time at Gloria Dei was marked by competition from Moravian missionaties that reduced the size of the congregation, and a debate within the congregation about cooperating with the newly powerful and numerous German Lutherans, who were led by the energetic and capable Reverend Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.
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October 3, 2017
Reverend Olof Parlin
On the 22d of December of 1757, Mr. Parlin died, of pleurisy, after an illness of four days. His remains lie beneath the chancel of Wicaco church, by the side of his predecessors, Rudman and Dylander.
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August 4, 2013
Peter Kock
According to "Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware, From their First Settlement in 1636, To the Present Time," by The Rev. Jehu Curtis Clay, D. D., the following marker…
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November 1, 1999
