St. Anne was established on May 20, 1997 by Archbishop Rembert Weakland, O.S.B. The name St. Anne was selected in honor of a St. Anne parish in Milwaukee that had closed after 100 years. The Archbishop thought it important to have a parish named after the mother of Mary in the diocese.

Planning meetings began on September 16, 1997 at Pleasant Prairie Elementary School and continued till the end of the year. A home that was on the site of the current International House of Pancakes near Menard’s on Hwy 50 was donated to the church and moved to property purchased by the parish at Hwy H and Bain Station Road in early 1998. This became our Parish Center from July 1998 to March 2007.

Our first mass was on the feast day of Sts. Joachim and Anne - July 26, 1998 in the cafeteria of Pleasant Prairie School. We celebrated mass in our church for the first time on September 11, 2004. The church was dedicated on October 3, 2004 by Archbishop Timothy Dolan. Our offices moved to the church campus in March 2007 when the Parish Center was sold.

It is not a church building that makes the people holy; it is the people who come into the building who make it holy. (paraphrase of John Chrysostom - 5th century writer and leader)