In 1895, the Reverend William A. Green was minister-in-charge and moved the church to a new building in the heart of the black community on Auburn Avenue. During the next decade, membership expanded continuously. In 1989, Father Green established a second black mission in the city – St. Matthias’ on Lawshe Street. The two missions grew and prospered under Reverend Henry Simmons (who succeeded Father Green) and the Reverend Albert Eustace Day.

In 1917, the Reverend Aubrey Anson Hewitt became vicar after the death of Father Day. That year, a fire engulfed a seventy-three-block radius in Atlanta consuming the church building and destroying records. The parishioners were forced to worship wherever they could. In desperation, Father Hewitt called upon the Diocese for help. In response, an old Sunday School building as given by the Cathedral of St. Philip and moved to the Auburn Avenue location providing temporary housing for St. Paul’s.

In subsequent years, Father W. Q. Rogers (1918), Reverend E. L. Braithwaite (1918 – 1926), Reverend H. Randolph Moore (1926 – 1934), Reverend Henry J. C. Bowden (1934 – 1943), Rev. George Harper (1943 – 44), Rev. Frederick J. Hunter (1945 – 47) served at St. Paul’s.

Under Rev. Samuel C. Usher, in 1947, St. Paul’s achieved status as a self-supporting parish. St. Paul’s membership would increase and St. Paul’s would become a full-fledged parish at the forty-seventy Diocesan Council in January 1954. In 1961, Rev. Adolphus Carty (1961 – 1963) followed Rev. Usher as rector.

Under the leadership of Rev. Robert Boyd Hunter (1964 – 1975), ground was broken for a new building on June 16, 1968. On June 22, 1969, St. Paul’s moved to its current location on Peyton Road.

In April 1977, Rev. Edward L. Warner (1977 – 2000) became rector. Early in the 1980s, St. Paul’s began to discuss proposals to complete the church on Peyton Road. A beautiful new sanctuary was dedicated and blessed by Bishop Frank Allan in 1994.

In 2001, Rev. Bernard Rosser became priest-in-charge of St. Paul’s. In July of 2002, the Vestry of St. Paul’s called the Reverend Canon Robert C. Wright as rector. Father Wright is a visionary and a strong advocate of outreach and the youth of the church. Under Father Wright, membership has increased to over 700. On September 17, 2005, the church celebrated its 125th anniversary and retired the mortgage on the sanctuary.