In the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, we strive to reach out with open arms and receive all people by our commitment to evangelization, social justice, and active participation in community life. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church has served the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco since 1915. The Conventual Franciscans of California are the Western United States Province of th
e Catholic Religious order founded in 1229 in Italy by St. In the California province, the friars have pledged themselves to minister to California’s diverse ethnic communities. In accord with this mission and history, the California Province of the Conventual Franciscans accepted the ministry at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in the Bayview Hunters Point area of San Francisco City in 1998.