St. Paul's College in Washington, D.C. was the house of formation for the Paulist Fathers, founded by Isaac Hecker.

As the home of Paulists who served the local and national Catholic Church through a variety of apostolates including education, evangelization, ecumenism, and mass communications,[1] the college was an associate member of the Washington Theological Consortium.

The Paulist Fathers maintain their formation program at St. Paul's College and seminarians attend the Catholic University of America for their graduate studies in theology.

[1] Prior to 2012, seminarians could choose between the Catholic University of America and Washington Theological Union for graduate study, but the latter institution closed that year due to lack of financial resources.

Though the development proposal was still very much in the preliminary planning phase, the Paulists were expected to relocate to a smaller building on the same site.