CCJ’s Rector, or Father Superior, manages the school under the directives of the Lebanese Maronite Order. The Rector is the primary leader in the school and has the ultimate responsibility of the school as a whole. The Rector is in charge of the school general organization, academic and discipline policy, hiring of heads of divisions, subject coordinators, teachers, and other staff members, academic calendar, and the development, implementation and evaluation of school-related programs and projects.

Central College was successively headed by the following rectors:

    Father Jacques SKAYEM (1966 – 1971)       Father Augustin AZAR (1971 – 1974)                            

    Father Elie KARAM (1974 – 1981)            Father Joseph KAMAR (1981 – 1986) 

                                                                                       and reappointed (1992 – 1999) 

Father Antoine ATALLAH (1986 – 1989)      Father Charbel AKIKI (1989 – 1992) 

                                                                                     and reappointed (1999 – 2004) 

Father Georges KMEID (2004 - 2007)             Father Wadih Skayem (2007 – 2016)

Father Antoine Salameh (2016- to date)