The Church of St. Mary the Virgin
1570 Missal of the Council of Trent in English and Latin
CLERGY
Fr. Richard Cumming
Rector
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Fr. Cumming first came to the United States in 2009. He holds degrees in Theology from the University of Glasgow and Union Theological Seminary.
Fr. Cumming was ordained to the priesthood and appointed as Assistant Priest at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in 2015. Fr. Cumming was appointed as the second Rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in February 2016.
Canon Nelson Skinner
Rector Emeritus
Canon Skinner was the Founding Rector of our parish. Canon Skinner was born in 1927, raised in nearby Baldwinsville, and was a combat veteran, wounded in action by a sniper in Korea in 1950. He received a Purple Heart, and later graduated from Hobart College and Nashotah House. He was ordained to the Priesthood in 1963, and served in various parishes and military chaplaincies, until finally becoming a counselor for the Veterans’ Administration. He and a faithful few started this Church in his kitchen, before moving on to a hardware store in Liverpool, and finally purchasing our historic building in 1994. Father Skinner went on to serve St. Mary’s until his death in November, 2014. We remain eternally grateful to him for helping to have a church of our own where the traditional Catholic faith can be taught and the true Mass can be celebrated.
