St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic Church is located on 16.11 acres of a beautifully, well-kept hillside overlooking historic Doylestown and some of the last rolling farmlands of Bucks County in Pennsylvania.

The historic roots of St. Anne’s Church and Parish may be said to have been planted with the arrival of the early Ukrainian immigrants into the US in the era before the turn of the century.  Some came from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and settled in the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains while others came from lands under the domination of the Poles, Russians, and Romanians.  Many of these immigrants settled in the Philadelphia area where they were employed in the factories by the docks.  Others settled on farms in Bucks and Montgomery Counties in and around Warrington, PA.

 In 1962, Metropolitan Andrew Senyshyn began negotiating with the Kramberger Family for the purchase of a tract of farmland which was formerly known as the “Popular Grove Farm.”  On April 5, 1963, negotiations were completed.  Shortly thereafter, on June 3, 1963, Reverend Robert Moskal, a newly ordained, energetic young priest was sent to occupy the old farmhouse by the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.  Five young seminarians soon followed and joined in a workforce to clear up the farmhouse and farm which had come into disrepair.  The farmhouse soon became the rectory and Divine Liturgies were held in the living room on a fold-out table.  Public Liturgies soon followed and parishioners began attending the services.  Ads were put into local papers and the local Roman Catholic clergy were notified of the intentions of the Archeparchy.  The numbers of attendees to the liturgies began to grow. 

The Church was named in honor of St. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Grandmother of Jesus shortly before July 25, 1963, the Feast Day that commemorated the Dormition (death) of St. Anne.  When 25 parishioner families were registered, groundbreaking for the building of the Church took place on November 17, 1963.  The first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the new Church on Holy Saturday, March 28, 1964.  In 1977, an Activities Hall was added to the property to accommodate the growing Church Family.  A fire destroyed the original hall but was replaced immediately as it was needed for the various Committees, Religious Education Program and the many fundraisers held to support the Church.  Due to the growth of the Church Community, a new Church was built and dedicated in 1993.  It is styled in the Hutsul (mountain area) architecture that is used abundantly in Ukraine.

Today, there are 150 families who are registered parishioners.  There is an active Religious Education Program for children from Pre-K to Grade 6 held every Sunday after the 9am Divine Liturgy from September through May.  Many fundraisers are held yearly and our most popular of those are our weekly Bingo games held every Tuesday and the sale of our delicious, homemade pyrohy (potato stuffed dough) and kielbasa monthly on Wednesday.