We mapped every Orthodox parish we could verify
Ask the internet where the nearest Orthodox church is and you get a jurisdiction’s own directory, which only lists its own parishes. That’s fine if you already know whether you want Greek, Antiochian, OCA, Serbian or Romanian. It’s useless if you are new, or moving, or dating somebody from a different tradition. So we built one directory that holds all of them, put it on a map, and left it outside the sign-in wall.
What changed
Every jurisdiction in one place
Greek, OCA, Antiochian, Russian, ROCOR, Serbian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Georgian and more, side by side.
A page for every state and province
Each one lists parishes by city with addresses and jurisdictions, and it is all in the page source, not loaded by script.
No account, no paywall
You do not need an Orthodate profile to use it, and we are not going to put one in front of it later.
Why a dating app built a church directory
Because the first honest answer to “how do I meet Orthodox people?” is almost never “download an app”. It’s “go to church, and then go to the one down the road, and find the one where you can actually build a life”. An app that pretends otherwise is selling something.
It also answers a question that comes up constantly in Orthodox dating and has no good tool behind it: where would we actually go together? When one of you is Greek Archdiocese and the other is OCA, the practical conversation is about which parishes are within a realistic drive, what languages the services use, and whether there is a third option that suits you both. That conversation needs a map, not a jurisdiction’s marketing page.
And there is a third reason we will say out loud: pages like this are how people find us. A directory that is genuinely the best free version of itself earns attention honestly. We would rather earn it that way than by buying it.
What’s in it
More than 1,700 parishes across 62 states and provinces in the United States and Canada, grouped into over a thousand cities and towns, spanning a dozen jurisdictions. Each entry carries the parish name, its city, its jurisdiction and, where we have it, a street address, a phone number and a website.
The map does the “near me” job. The state and province pages do the browsing job, with every city as its own anchor so a link can point straight at a town rather than at the top of a long list. Towns with three or more parishes get their own headed section; smaller towns are laid out alphabetically underneath, because past two parishes people look a place up by name rather than by size.
A search box and jurisdiction filters sit above all of it. They filter what is already on the page rather than fetching new results, which means every address stays in the page source for anyone — or anything — reading it without running scripts.
On accuracy, honestly
This data is compiled from public sources, and public sources about parishes are messy. The same town is spelled three ways. Parish websites go dark and their domains get bought by somebody else. A handful of links pointed at pages that no longer exist, and a few hundred more only appeared broken because the host was blocking our checker rather than because anything was wrong.
What we did about it: entries without a usable name, city or location are dropped rather than shown half-empty. Website links are validated before they are printed, links we confirmed as dead are suppressed rather than quietly redirected to a diocese homepage, and around nine hundred parish sites were upgraded to secure addresses only after each one was individually checked to be sure it resolved to the same place.
It will still be wrong somewhere. If your parish is missing, listed under the wrong jurisdiction or pointing at a dead link, tell us and we will fix that entry.
How to actually use it while dating
Three things it is genuinely good for beyond finding a Sunday liturgy:
- Working out a realistic radius. Seeing how many parishes sit inside an hour of you changes what “long distance” means in your situation.
- Planning a first visit to a tradition you have never attended, without having to ask your date to explain their own church to you first.
- Finding a neutral parish when two people come from different jurisdictions and neither wants the conversation to start with whose church wins.
Try it