History of St. Paul's Wickford

The mission of every Church is to know God and make him known.

St. Paul’s has been faithfully trying to do just that since its founding in 1706.

The history of St. Paul’s Church in Wickford goes back to the early days of Colonial Rhode Island. The St. Paul’s congregation was formed in 1706 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), the missionary arm of the Anglican Church based in London. Beginning in 1702, the Society had received a number of petitions to establish a church in the Narragansett Country (what is roughly today the geographic area of South County; but so-called in 1702 because it was inhabited by the Native American Narragansett people).