St. Andrew’s Church is found at 105 Greaves Street North in Werribee.

Our parish is a vast and colourful landscape that draws its living breath from so many families and individuals living on either side of the Princes Highway – or the Werribee River which flows across coastal plains emptying into Port Phillip Bay. Many natural communities have developed within our Parish of St. Andrew’s over the years.

To see the extent of the Parish of Werribee, click here.

The areas of fastest growth at present are around Wyndham Vale, Bluestone Green, Wyndham Springs, Wyndham Green, Manor Lakes, north of McGraths Road, Tarneit West, and Upper Point Cook.

Our Parish has always been a multicultural Parish since the first Catholic Mass was celebrated at St. Michael’s, Little River by Fr. Ronald Rankin from Scotland in 1857.

From 1857 to 1863, Werribee was incorporated into the Little River Parish which extended from Lara to Footscray, and out to Anakie. From 1863 when Fr. Mathew Downing was Parish Priest of Williamstown until 1906, Werribee was part of Williamstown Parish.

In 1906, Most. Rev. Thomas Joseph Carr, D.D., Archbishop of Melbourne, erected the new parish of Werribee and Little River, appointing Fr. Michael Heany as its first parish priest.

The new Parish Office is now located in the bluestone building (opened as a Church and School in 1871) on the left-hand side of St. Andrew’s Church.

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