Catholic dating in Florida
Catholic dating in Florida: young adult groups in English and Spanish, Latin Mass and Eastern Catholic parishes, campus ministries from Pensacola to Key West.
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Short answer
In Florida a young adult group at your parish may well meet in Spanish. The Archdiocese of Miami publishes its list of parish young adult groups with a column for language, and more of them meet in Spanish, or in Spanish and English, than in English alone. Up the coast and across the state, the Sunday timetables tell the same story: a Spanish Mass at the Key West basilica, at the university parishes in Coral Gables and Gainesville, and at the shrines in Orlando and St Augustine.
The oldest dates on this page are Spanish too. The basilica in Pensacola dates its parish's origin to a Mass on 15 August 1559, and the mission in St Augustine records a Mass of thanksgiving after the Spanish landing on 8 September 1565. The two towns are about four hundred miles apart by road.
Twenty-two places are listed below with an address and an official link, from Pensacola to Key West. They are not every parish in Florida. They are places whose own pages we could open and check, most of them saying who comes and when.
You are reading this on cana.love, a free site for people who intend to marry. It is not a Catholic-only site; a section further down explains what that means.
Catholics in Florida
Florida has seven Catholic dioceses: the Archdiocese of Miami and the dioceses of St Augustine, Pensacola-Tallahassee, Orlando, St Petersburg, Palm Beach and Venice. What they publish for young adults differs a great deal.
Miami's list goes furthest: each parish group appears with an age range, a meeting day and a language, and the archdiocese also runs a Hispanic young adult council and a Catholic Young Professionals series on the first Monday of each month. The Diocese of St Petersburg gives an age of eighteen to thirty-nine, holds an evening called SUMMIT on the second Thursday of the month for people in their twenties and thirties, and has a separate Pastoral Juvenil that invites Hispanic young adults from eighteen to thirty-five.
From the parishes', the shrines' and the dioceses' own pages, opened 23 and 24 September 2026
The dioceses of St Augustine and Orlando both describe their young adults as eighteen to thirty-five but publish no list of parish groups. Palm Beach lists the parishes that have a group, without days or ages. Venice's office serves people up to their late twenties and hosts Theology on Tap on the third Thursday of the month at a restaurant in University Park.
Pensacola-Tallahassee is the gap: the diocese's site answered us with a bot check, and we did not read it. Its parishes' own sites did open, and the panhandle on this page is built from them.
Where the community gathers
The twenty-two places fall into five parts of the state: Miami, the Keys and Palm Beach; Tampa Bay and Sarasota; Orlando; the north-east, from Jacksonville to Gainesville; and the panhandle.
Miami, the Keys and Palm Beach
Miami, the Keys and Palm Beach hold seven. The archdiocese's list of parish groups is the place to start. St Agatha runs the Catholic campus ministry for Florida International University, and St Augustine in Coral Gables is the University of Miami's parish, with a college Mass on Sunday nights in term. Our Lady of Belen Chapel is where the Fraternity of St Peter offers the Latin Mass; St Jude in Brickell is a Melkite Greek Catholic parish; the basilica in Key West holds Masses in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole; and the Cathedral of St Ignatius Loyola in Palm Beach Gardens has a young adult group on Monday evenings.
Tampa Bay and Sarasota
Tampa Bay and Sarasota hold five. The Catholic Student Center serves the University of South Florida, the Institute of Christ the King keeps the Epiphany of Our Lord Shrine in Tampa, and Catholic Young Adults of St Pete meets with the Cathedral of St Jude among its partner parishes. Sts Peter and Paul in Tampa is a Maronite parish, and Christ the King in Sarasota is served by the Fraternity of St Peter.
Orlando
Orlando holds three: the Basilica of Mary, Queen of the Universe, with Masses in Spanish, Polish and Portuguese as well as English; the young adult ministry of the Cathedral of St James downtown; and the Catholic Campus Ministry at the University of Central Florida.
The north-east
The north-east holds four. In St Augustine, the Mission Nombre de Dios with the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, and the Cathedral Basilica; in Gainesville, St Augustine Church and Student Center at the University of Florida; and in Jacksonville, the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception downtown.
The panhandle
The panhandle holds three: the Catholic Student Union at the Co-Cathedral of St Thomas More in Tallahassee, and in Pensacola the Basilica of St Michael and St Stephen, a parish of the traditional Latin Mass.
Meeting places worth knowing
The archdiocese's list of parish groups, each with its ages, day and language, from groups for eighteen to twenty-one to ones for people in their thirties.
9401 Biscayne BoulevardMiami Shores
FL 33138
Catholic campus ministry for Florida International University; Spanish Masses on Sunday at nine, one and six, and Voceros de Cristo, a Spanish-speaking group for ages eighteen to thirty-five, on Wednesday evenings.
1111 Southwest 107th AvenueMiami
FL 33174
The University of Miami's parish, with a college Mass at eight on Sunday evenings in term and a young adult group for people in their twenties and thirties on Tuesdays.
1400 Miller RoadCoral Gables
FL 33146
Where the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter offers the Latin Mass in Miami; the chapel stands in a school, which asks not to be contacted about the Masses.
500 Southwest 127th AvenueMiami
FL 33184
A Melkite parish in Brickell, with Sunday Liturgies in English, in English and Arabic, and in Spanish.
126 Southeast 15th RoadMiami
FL 33129
A minor basilica with a grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, and Sunday Masses in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
1010 Windsor LaneKey West
FL 33040
A group for ages eighteen to thirty-nine that meets on Monday evenings at seven; the cathedral also has a Sunday Mass in Spanish.
9999 North Military TrailPalm Beach Gardens
FL 33410
The Catholic center at the University of South Florida, with Mass twice a day on weekdays and three times at the weekend.
13005 North 50th StreetTampa
FL 33617
Served by canons of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, with the traditional Latin Mass and the homily in English.
2510 East Hanna AvenueTampa
FL 33610
A community that describes itself as led by young adults for young adults, with the cathedral among its partner parishes.
5815 5th Avenue NorthSt Petersburg
FL 33710
A Maronite parish with Mass in English and Arabic on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
6201 Sheldon RoadTampa
FL 33615
An apostolate of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, with four Latin Masses on Sunday, one of them sung.
1900 Meadowood StreetSarasota
FL 34231
A basilica and national shrine with Masses in English, Spanish, Polish and Portuguese.
8300 Vineland AvenueOrlando
FL 32821
A group for young adult Catholics from eighteen to thirty-nine that meets every other Tuesday at half past six, downtown.
215 North Orange AvenueOrlando
FL 32801
A ministry of the Diocese of Orlando, with a Tuesday night gathering and a Sunday noon Mass on campus in term.
3925 Lockwood BoulevardSuite 1051
Oviedo
FL 32765
The site of the 1565 Mass of thanksgiving; it calls itself America's oldest Marian shrine and has a Mass in Spanish on Saturday afternoons.
101 San Marco AvenueSt Augustine
FL 32084
The parish calls itself the nation's first Catholic parish; Mass every morning, and a Catholic young adults group listed on its site.
38 Cathedral PlaceSt Augustine
FL 32084
The Catholic center at the University of Florida, with five Sunday Masses, one of them in Spanish, and Mass twice a day on weekdays.
1738 West University AvenueGainesville
FL 32603
A basilica downtown, with Sunday Masses at ten, at noon and in Spanish at two.
121 East Duval StreetJacksonville
FL 32202
The co-cathedral's ministry to students at Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee State College.
900 West Tennessee StreetTallahassee
FL 32304
The parish traces its origin to 1559, was canonically established in 1781 and became a basilica in 2011.
21 North Palafox StreetPensacola
FL 32502
The parish says it is the only one in its diocese offering the traditional Latin Mass, with a sung Mass on Sunday at half past ten.
900 West Garden StreetPensacola
FL 32502
Some places are named without a card. The Fraternity of St Peter also says Mass at Corpus Christi Chapel in Naples, at the Church of the Resurrection in Fort Myers and at Queen of Peace in Ocala, and St Joseph's Historic Church in Jacksonville offers only the Latin Mass; we confirmed them only through the Fraternity's pages and the Latin Mass Directory, or their own sites were closed to us. One Orlando chapel that appears in Latin Mass listings is flagged there as not in communion with Rome, so it is not here.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times without traffic.
Florida is longer than it looks. Pensacola to Tallahassee is about two hundred miles, three hours and forty minutes by car; Tallahassee to Jacksonville a little over three hours; Jacksonville to Miami about six and a half. From Pensacola to Key West is more than eight hundred miles.
The middle is closer together. Orlando to Tampa is about an hour and forty minutes, Tampa to St Petersburg forty minutes, and Jacksonville to St Augustine under an hour. Miami to Palm Beach Gardens is an hour and forty minutes; Miami to Key West, four hours down the Overseas Highway.
So it matters from the first message where each of you lives. A couple in Tampa and St Petersburg can meet after work; a couple in Pensacola and Miami are a flight or a very long day's drive apart. The cana.love form asks where you live and whether you would move.
The Catholic year in Florida
The Palm Beach cathedral's young adults
Monday evenings at seven, for ages eighteen to thirty-nine.
Catholic Young Professionals in Miami
A series from the archdiocese, on the first Monday of each month.
Downtown Orlando
The Cathedral of St James's young adults meet at half past six.
Coral Gables and UCF
The Coral Gables parish's young adult group meets at five past eight; KnightFire at UCF begins at eight.
SUMMIT in St Petersburg
Adoration at seven and Mass at eight, for people in their twenties and thirties.
Theology on Tap near Sarasota
The Diocese of Venice's evening at a restaurant in University Park.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Florida
A Spanish-speaking group at St Agatha, a Maronite Liturgy in Tampa, four Latin Masses on a Sunday in Sarasota, a college Mass on Sunday nights in Coral Gables: Florida's Catholics practise in more than one way. The cana.love form asks about practice directly.
Mass, fasting and Scripture, each asked
It asks how often you go to Mass, with five choices from every Sunday down to rarely, and it asks separately about fasting and about Scripture. It asks what you are on the site for. You decide who can see each of those answers.
Your parish, in your own words
Two questions have no choices at all. One asks you to name your parish in your own words; the other asks what gives your life meaning. A list of options would struggle with a state where one person's parish is a Melkite church in Brickell and another's is a university center in Gainesville.
Five languages, one of them Spanish
The site works in five languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian. In a state where so many young adult groups meet in Spanish, that is not a detail.
Checked first, free, no password
No profile and no photograph is shown to anyone before it is checked: first automatically, then by a person whenever the automatic check is unsure. The published rules forbid asking another member for money, and fraud leads to permanent removal without warning. Membership is free, there is no subscription, and there is no password; you sign in with a one-time link or code sent by email.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not a Catholic-only platform.
Orthodox Christians use it, and Protestants, and people still working out where they belong, provided they want the same kind of marriage; your settings decide who sees you. Florida's parishes pray in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Arabic, Polish and Portuguese, and a site that kept everyone apart would be narrower than the churches themselves. What cana.love does promise is checkable: faith, practice and intention are on the form, and the answers are there to read before you reply. It is run by Cana SpA, a company in Chile, and the About page says more.
Meeting safely
- Make the first meeting public, in daylight, with a time to finish agreed in advance: coffee after Mass, a café in Coral Gables or on the Tampa Riverwalk. Tell a friend where you are going, and if the date means a flight or a long drive, when you expect to be home. Keep your address to yourself for now.
- About money there is nothing to weigh up. Until you have met in person, send nothing, lend nothing and pay for no one's ticket, however urgent it sounds. One report is enough for it to be looked into.
The community guidelines set out how reports are handled and how to appeal a decision.
Common questions
Are there young adult groups that meet in Spanish?
Yes, many. The Archdiocese of Miami's list marks each group's language, and St Agatha's Voceros de Cristo meets in Spanish for ages eighteen to thirty-five. In the Diocese of St Petersburg, Pastoral Juvenil invites Hispanic young adults from eighteen to thirty-five.
Where can I find the traditional Latin Mass?
On this page: Our Lady of Belen in Miami, the Epiphany shrine in Tampa, Christ the King in Sarasota and St Stephen in Pensacola. The Fraternity of St Peter also says Mass in Naples, Fort Myers and Ocala.
Which groups give an age range?
The Palm Beach cathedral and the Cathedral of St James in Orlando both say eighteen to thirty-nine. St Augustine in Coral Gables says twenties and thirties, and the groups on Miami's list each give their own.
Are there Eastern Catholic parishes?
Yes: St Jude in Miami is Melkite, with a Sunday Liturgy in Spanish as well as English and Arabic, and Sts Peter and Paul in Tampa is Maronite.
Why is the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee not linked?
Its site answered us with a bot check, so we did not read it. The panhandle places on this page come from the parishes' and the university ministry's own sites.
Can I use cana.love anywhere in Florida?
Yes, from eighteen. It is a website, so there is nothing to install.
Next steps
If you are in Miami, open the archdiocese's list, pick a group in the language you pray in, and go twice before deciding. If you are in Orlando or Palm Beach, the cathedral groups meet on weeknights. And if you would rather know where someone stands before the first coffee than after it, make a profile on cana.love: it is free, and it asks what a parish social does not.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.