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 * This article discusses St. Paul's Episcopal Church in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. For other churches with the same name, please see St. Paul's Church.

St. Paul's Church, Carroll Gardens is a parish of the Episcopal Church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. We are part of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion. The church is located on the corner of Clinton and Carroll St's. in the Carroll Garden neighborhood of the boro of Brooklyn in New York City.

History
St. Paul's was founded on Christmas Day of 1849, in what was then the quickly developing southward expansion of old Brooklyn Heights. New homes and businesses were covering old countryside, farmland, and shoreline; the Industrial Revolution was still bringing a new way of life to the City, waves of new immigrants from the nations of the world were continuing to arrive; the American Civil War was looming, and Charles Darwin was ten years away from publishing "On Origin of Species." This was also the era when the Anglican Communion of Churches was experiencing a renewed vision of her catholic faith and order often called the "Anglo-Catholic Revival" of the Oxford Movement. Saint Paul's was formed in heady days of philosophical, social, economic, and religious change.

Change has been constant in the life of St. Paul's, but so too has constancy been a hallmark of this parish which has been a presence in the neighborhood from the beginning. The church building is registered as a National Landmark.