Editing Mission San Francisco de Asís (section)

==Succession of rectors, pastors, and administrators==
* [[Francisco Palóu]] and Pedro Benito Cambón – June 27, 1776 (founders)
* [[Francisco Palóu]] – 1776 to 1784
* [[Eugene O'Connell]] – 1854<ref name=dnewadvent>{{cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13439c.htm |access-date=2010-04-20 |title=San Francisco |date=April 20, 2010 |publisher=www.newadvent.org}}</ref>
* Richard Carroll – 1854 to 1860
* John J. Prendergast – 1860 to 1867
* Thomas Cushing – 1867 to 1875
* Richard P. Brennan – 1875 to 1904
* Patrick Cummins – 1904 to 1916
* John W. Sullivan – 1916 to 1939
* [[Thomas Arthur Connolly|Thomas A. Connolly]]  – 1939 to 1948 (first auxiliary bishop, first rector)<ref name=bconta>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bconta|Archbishop Thomas Arthur Connolly|21 January 2015}}</ref>
* James T. O'Dowd – 1948 to 1950 (rector)
* [[Merlin Guilfoyle]] – 1950 to 1969 (rector)
* [[Norman Francis McFarland|Norman F. McFarland]] – 1970 to 1974 (last rector)<ref name=DOrangeBio>{{cite web|url=http://www.rcbo.org/images/stories/Most_Reverend_Norman_Francis_McFarland_D_D__J_C_D___Bio__FINAL_.pdf|access-date=2010-04-20|title=Thomas Arthur Connolly|publisher=[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange|Diocese of Orange]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130230751/http://www.rcbo.org/images/stories/Most_Reverend_Norman_Francis_McFarland_D_D__J_C_D___Bio__FINAL_.pdf|archive-date=2016-01-30}}</ref>
* Richard S. Knapp – 1974, 1974 to 1983 (served first as administrator, then pastor)
* John J. O'Connor – 1983 to 1997
* Maurice McCormick – 1997 to 2003
* [[William J. Justice]] – 2003 to 2007 (Became a bishop after he left Mission Dolores)
* Arturo Albano – 2007 to 2015
* Francis Mark P Garbo – 2015 to present