Saint Paul University (French: Université Saint-Paul) is a Catholic Pontifical university federated with the University of Ottawa. It is located on Main Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and has been entrusted for more than a century to the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The enabling legislation is a civil charter passed by the government of the Province of Canada in August 1866, and a pontifical declaration promulgated by Pope Leo XIII on 5 February 1889. Like the University of Ottawa, Saint Paul University is a fully bilingual institution, offering instruction in English and French. In 1848, Monsignor Joseph-Bruno Guigues, the first Catholic Bishop of Bytown, established the small College of Bytown housed in a modest wooden building shadowing the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica. Space soon became an issue, and in 1852, students and professors of the college moved to a stone edifice on Sussex Avenue, then known then as the Académie De La Salle. In 1856, the college moved to six lots on Wilbrod Street donated by notary L.-T. Besserer, and was later renamed the Université d'Ottawa.