St Anthony of Padua Church in North Caldwell was founded by the followers of Father Paul A. Wickens, former pastor of St. Anthony of Padua in West Orange and practices complete fidelity to the traditional mass, dogma, and magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church.
Following Wickens' death in 2004, many parishioners were unhappy with the direction the Archdiocese of Newark took with the church. Several hundred of the parishioners established their own independent church in Fairfield that was then moved to its current location on Gould Avenue in August 2006.