Our Parish - St Anthony of Padua

St Anthony of Padua Parish was established in September 1976, the second Parish in the Tuggeranong Valley after St Thomas the Apostle Parish at Kambah.  Father Gerard Monaghan was St Anthony's first Parish Priest.   Mass was first celebrated in the hall of Wanniassa Primary School and then in the hall of  Padua High School (now Mackillop Catholic College) after  it opened in early 1977.

In 1984,  the Parish Council and Father Quirk Parish priest examined the feasibility of building a permanent Parish Church.  The present site on Sternberg Crescent above Mackillop Catholic College was approved at a parish meeting in April 1985. A design for the Church was accepted by another parish meeting in early 1986. The church was opened on Sunday 31 May 1987.