All Saints' chapel

While the church today is home to approximately 400 communicants, we trace our beginnings back to 1870 (the same year Tupelo was founded) when six Episcopalians began meeting in a Presbyterian Church building. Bishop William Mercer Green visited them on October 3, 1870 and the Diocese assigned them the status of "mission station. It took nearly for... ty years for All Saints' to achieve the status as an official mission church-in 1909, with the roll listing 22 communicants. It would take an additional fifty years for All Saints' to become a parish-a self-supporting congregation. This status was granted by the Diocese of Mississippi in January 1957. Throughout those years, the church had weathered storms, both literal and figurative, including Tupelo's devastating tornado of 1936, which demolished the brick church built in 1910 and heavily damaged the rectory next door. A new church-the building that today serves as the chapel was completed in 1938, on the same Jefferson Street site. Construction of parish ministries buildingRead More