PITTSFIELD – The ceremony marking installation of a new priest for the recently burned St. Martin’s Episcopal Church of Palmyra has been moved to St. Agnes Catholic Church in Pittsfield.

The ceremony is set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 23.

It was moved after a fire Wednesday night that destroyed St. Martin’s, a Palmyra landmark.

“The Fire Marshal’s Office and the insurance company won’t let us touch anything,” said St. Martin’s parishioner Mary Anne Harding on Friday. “That is why we can’t have the celebration in our parish hall. We can’t clean it up.”

Harding added: “We have been offered virtually every church building in this area, and we are so grateful.”

She said the congregation hopes to be able to hold services at its parish hall beginning April 30.

The Rev. Levering Sherman Jr. will be formally accepted Sunday as St. Martin’s priest, serving half time with a Skowhegan church. “We hope we have a real good crowd,” Harding said.

St. Agnes is on Detroit Avenue in Pittsfield, off Route 100 and just north of the Sebasticook River.