About All Saints

 

All Saints Church first started when families began meeting in homes for Mass in the Hamlet of Myers around 1910 or 1911. The area priest used an old section hand railroad car and road it from King Ferry to Myers to celebrate Mass. Myers, at the time was settled by miners working in the Cayuga Rock Salt Mine (now Cargill Salt Mine) at Portland Point, as well as in the International Salt Plant located on the lands  adjacent to the mouth of Salmon Creek.

The first Chapel was constructed in 1913 at Myers and served the Parish until 1933 when the present Church was constructed on the corner of NYS Rt. 34B and Myers Road. In the 1950's and the 1970's, the interior of the church was renovated. In 1991, All Saints purchased the 15.43 acres adjacent to the Church for use in building a Parish Center was was constructed in 1996. From our founding until 1996, All Saints was a mission first of Our Lady of the Lake Parish in King Ferry, and then St. Catherine's of Sienna Parish in Ithaca. In 1987, All Saints began having a full time Pastoral Associates: Gail Rina and then Sr. Mary Wintish  RSM. In 1996, All Saints was recognized as a full parish of the Diocese of Rochester and Sr. Mary was appointed a Pastoral Administrator and Fr. Larry Barnett was appointed Sacramental Minister. In 2000 Fr. Scott Kubinski succeeded Fr. Larry as Sacramental Minister and upon the death of Sr. Mary in 2002, was appointed Pastoral Administrator in additions to his duties as Priest Chaplain at Ithaca College.

All Saints prides itself as being a growing parish, in a growing community, with active volunteers, who are willing to assume responsibility for maintaining the parish activities and physical plant.