St. Anthony of Padua was founded August 10, 1866 as a mission of St. Paul Parish in Hingham.  Fr. John Roddan was the first priest to minister to the mission church and then Parish of St. Anthony of Padua.  Construction began on what was the original Church (pictured below) in 1875.  It was located on South Main Street, across from where the rectory currently stands.

On August 17, 1886, St. Anthony's was established as its own independent Parish with its own mission churches in North Scituate (eventually, the now-closed St. Frances Xavier Cabrini church and parish) and in Scituate Harbor (St. Mary of the Nativity church and parish, still in existence).

Our current church building (pictured below) was built in 1964 under the pastorate of Fr. Joseph Brennan. The Saint Anthony Parish Hall was built in 1999 and currently houses the offices of our Collaborative Pastoral Center and our religious education classrooms.

St. Anthony's Church has a statue with a unique history: the plaque below it details that this statue of the Saint, known for finding lost things, was itself lost on its journey to Cohasset Saint Anthony's Church from Portugal. Many years later, the staute was found and was placed inside the church, where it currently remains. The statue is carved from a solid piece of wood and brought from the Azores to Cohasset.