About

Who We Are
St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church is a parish in the Diocese of Fort Worth; we serve Catholics in Flower Mound, Lewisville, Highland Village, Lantana, and the surrounding communities.  With a community of 3200 families located in one of the fastest-growing areas of the country, St. Philip's has completed Phase I of a new campus at 5201 Cross Timbers Road, Flower Mound.

Where We Began
In 2022, St. Philip’s celebrated the 50th anniversary of our parish; that is, 50 years since the appointment of our first pastor, Fr. Joseph Scantlin, in 1972.  The work of building St. Philip’s began earlier, however, with the first Mass celebrated in Lewisville for 120 local Catholics on November 19, 1967.  It took several years for the small group to realize the dream of a parish in their own community; they met for Sunday Mass in local schools and churches and gathered for annual picnics, all the while shaping the growing community that would become St. Philip’s.  But every parish needs a church: a building dedicated to the act of worship, a place where Our Lord may dwell among us the Blessed Sacrament.  The first home of our parish was a pre-fabricated metal building on Jones Street in Lewisville, built in 1971.  Parishioners had raised funds for years, even doing some of the construction work themselves, to provide this home.

A Growing Parish
The metal building on Jones Street was only a temporary home for the new St. Philip’s.  Within a few years, a decision was reached to build the parish’s second home at a different location.  Property was chosen at the corner of FM 1171 and Kirkpatrick Lane, at that time a relatively undeveloped area.  In 1977, the new church and parish hall were completed, and St. Philip’s began to grow in earnest; by 1986, the parish was home to over 1400 families.  It quickly became clear that our second church would soon be too small to accommodate our parish.  In the 1990s, parish leadership began plans to build again, locating the new church on the same property with the 1977 buildings.  A design for an arena-style church was chosen, and construction on the third St. Philip’s was completed in 1997.  The parish also outgrew this church over the next two decades, and with no further room to grow on the 5-acre campus, a relocation was necessary to continue building St. Philip's.

The Move to Flower Mound
In 2014, Bishop Michael Olson recognized St. Philip’s need to expand and directed the Pastor, Fr. Raymond McDaniel, to begin plans for a new parish campus.  A wooded hilltop in west Flower Mound, a property of about 40 acres, was purchased, and over the next few years the process of fundraising, planning, designing, and finally construction took place.  Phase I of the parish campus, which includes part of the church and support spaces for social activites and formation classes, was completed in 2022.