St. Mary & St. GeorgeCoptic Orthodox Church · Scituate, MA
St. Mary & St. George is a Coptic Orthodox church on the South Shore of Massachusetts. Our Church traces its roots to St. Mark the Apostle in Alexandria. Our building on Hood Road has been a church since 1961.
Fleeing Herod, St. Joseph and St. Mary took the Christ child to Egypt, as Isaiah had prophesied. The Coptic Church celebrates the Entry of the Lord into Egypt as a feast every year.
In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border.Isaiah 19:19
St. Mark the Evangelist brought the Gospel to Alexandria around 42 AD and founded the Church of Alexandria, which is the Coptic Orthodox Church. Its Liturgy, fasts and feasts have been handed down for almost two thousand years.
The Catechetical School of Alexandria was a center of Christian learning, and monasticism began in the Egyptian desert with St. Anthony. The Coptic Church has given the world many martyrs and saints.
In 1961 local Catholics built and dedicated St. Frances X. Cabrini Church on Hood Road, with a church hall next to it. It served Scituate families for more than forty years.
Through the 1960s, visiting priests served Coptic students and families in the Boston area. In 1972 the faithful began praying together in a rented church in Cambridge. In the late 1970s Fr. Salib Ava Mina came to serve them, and the congregation moved to a rented church in Newtonville.
In 1985 the congregation bought 145 Oak Street in Natick as a permanent home for St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Boston. On September 1, 1991, H.H. Pope Shenouda III laid the cornerstone of the church. St. Mark became the mother church for the Copts of Massachusetts.
The cornerstone of St. Mark of Boston was laid by H.H. Pope Shenouda III.145 Oak Street, Natick · September 1, 1991
In 2004 the Archdiocese of Boston closed St. Frances X. Cabrini. Its members would not leave. They kept a vigil inside the church day and night for more than eleven years, until May 30, 2016.
As more Coptic families settled south of Boston, the community moved into an old church building in Marshfield in 2010. It became St. Mary & St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, and the Liturgy was prayed on the South Shore every week.
H.H. Pope Tawadros II established the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of New York and New England in 2013. H.G. Bishop David was consecrated in Cairo that November and enthroned on December 7. St. Mary & St. George is one of its churches.
Diocese website →The diocese covers New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.H.G. Bishop David, since 2013
Abouna Bishoy was ordained a priest for our church in 2014.
Meet the Fathers →In April 2018 St. Mary & St. George bought the former Cabrini property from the Archdiocese of Boston: the church, the hall and the land around them. We moved from Marshfield to Scituate, and the Liturgy was prayed in the Hood Road church again.
In 2025 Abouna George was ordained a priest for our church. At the same time, Abouna Bishoy was ordained Hegumen. Both fathers serve our church today.
Meet the Fathers →We pray the Divine Liturgy here every week and run Sunday School and youth programs. The church also runs the St. Abraam Christian Fellowship Retreat Center on Hollett Street. Our Liturgies are streamed on YouTube for anyone who can't be there in person.
About the retreat center →The Mother of God. The Coptic Church honors her above all the saints and remembers her in every Liturgy.
Known as the Prince of Martyrs, he was killed for his faith under the emperor Diocletian. His icon on horseback is on our iconostasis.
Everyone is welcome. If it's your first visit, come say hello after the Liturgy.
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