Wayne County News

Local news and feature coverage of the Diocese of Rochester, including events, parishes, and people in Wayne County, New York. This collection includes reporting from communities such as Clyde, Lyons, Macedon, Ontario, Palmyra, Red Creek, Savannah, Sodus, Wolcott, and surrounding areas.

Coverage includes the Catholic Community of the Blessed Trinity, whose Wayne County worship sites are Blessed Trinity Church and St. Mary Magdalene Church in Wolcott and St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Red Creek, and which also includes St. Jude Church in Fair Haven, Cayuga County.

Other Catholic communities include the Catholic Parishes of Western Wayne County—St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Katharine Drexel—with worship sites at St. Patrick Church in Macedon, St. Anne Church in Palmyra, St. Mary Church in Ontario, and Epiphany Church in Sodus; and St. Joseph the Worker Parish, with worship sites at St. Michael Church in Lyons, St. John the Evangelist Church in Clyde, and St. Patrick Church in Savannah.

Wayne County is part of New York’s Finger Lakes region, and related coverage may also appear within the Courier’s Finger Lakes regional news section →.

Use the Diocese of Rochester’s Parish Locator and Mass Times ↗ to find current parish information and worship schedules in Wayne County.