The ”Catholic Community of Western Cranston”, as the parish was first called, was established in 1991,the first new parish to be established in the Diocese of Providence in over twenty years. Its history actually dates back to the mid 1980s when the Bishop of Providence, the Most Reverend Louis E. Gelineau, realized that the fastest rate of growth in the diocese was taking place in the western section of the City of Cranston. Concerned with the pastoral and spiritual needs of this growing community, Bishop Gelineau directed his staff to locate a tract of land that someday could be used to build a church. In 1989, the diocese purchased seven acres of land on the corner of Pippin Orchard Road and Scituate Avenue. Following lengthy consultations with the pastors of Immaculate Conception Parish and St. Ann Parish in Cranston, St. Bridget Parish in Johnston, St. Joseph Parish in North Scituate and SS. Peter and Paul Parish in West Warwick the boundaries for the new parish were established.