Priests from Nacogdoches and Palestine came to Tyler to celebrate Mass and attend to the pastoral needs of Catholics.

A wood-frame church was built at the corner of West Locust Street and North College Avenue two years later.

It added parish offices, a library and a large meeting room in 1984 and two years later, named the church basement facility for Father Samperi.

The parish created St. Paul's Chapel in the Chancery Office as a temporary facility while it planned a permanent location.

The patience of the parishioners was rewarded on December 8, 2011, when Bishop Alvaro Corrada dedicated the 700-seat Chapel of Sts.