Catholic dating in Ohio
Catholic dating in Ohio: Theology on Tap and softball in Cleveland, the campus centers, the Latin Mass oratories and three shrines. Free, no subscription.
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Short answer
Ohio has six Latin dioceses, two Eastern Catholic eparchies seated in the state and a Catholic parish in every county seat; nobody in Ohio needs help finding a Mass. What people ask for in their own forums is different: where, on a Wednesday evening, are the practising Catholics who are roughly my age? This page answers that for Ohio with twenty-nine places: the Cleveland diocese's young adult office and the two things it runs that a stranger can simply turn up to, a monthly Theology on Tap and a summer softball league on Sunday afternoons; the young adult Mass at St Peter's downtown; the campus centers at Ohio State, Cincinnati, Miami, Kent, Youngstown, Toledo, Bowling Green, Wright State, Case, Athens and Steubenville; the Latin Mass oratories of the Institute of Christ the King in Cleveland and Columbus and the Fraternity of St Peter's parishes in Dayton and Vienna; the Byzantine cathedral in Parma with its own young adult network; and three shrines.
One diocese on this page states an age and the page quotes it: Cleveland says its young adult ministry is for Catholics between eighteen and thirty-nine, its Theology on Tap for people in their twenties and thirties, its softball league for eighteen to thirty-nine. Toledo, Cincinnati, Columbus and the eparchies say young adults without a number, and the page does not add one.
This page belongs to cana.love, which is free, made for people who want marriage rather than a match, and built on a form that asks what the person next to you at Theology on Tap would want to know before the second round: how many Sundays a month you are at Mass, which parish, what you do about fasting, whether marriage is the aim. It is not a Catholic-only site; a section below says so plainly.
Catholics in Ohio
The Diocese of Cleveland has done the most legible work in the state, and the page starts there. Its Office of Young Adult Ministry says on its own page that its purpose is to connect all Catholics between eighteen and thirty-nine to Jesus and to the Church, to build parish collaboratives for young adults, and to run diocesan-wide retreats and conferences. Two of its programs have dates and places. Theology on Tap, which the office describes as a discussion series for Catholic young adults and their friends, married and single, in their twenties and thirties, runs on Wednesday evenings from seven to nine; the three sessions on the calendar when this page was written fell in October, November and December. The Young Adult Softball League plays on Sunday afternoons through the summer at St John Bosco in Parma Heights, is open to anyone eighteen to thirty-nine of any skill level, and the office says it is looking at fields in the eastern and southern parts of the diocese for the coming season.
Cincinnati organises its young adults under a name rather than an office: Queen City Catholic, the young adult community of the archdiocese, whose page invites people to come to an event, join the community, and attend a sacramental hub every other Tuesday at the cathedral; the archdiocese's Center for the New Evangelization stands behind it and publishes the directory of campus ministries at Miami, Cincinnati and Wright State. Toledo's diocese keeps a plain list on its young adults page, from Corpus Christi University Parish and the Rosary Cathedral's Theology on Tap to a dozen parish groups and a Young Catholic Professionals chapter, and tells you to contact your parish for the rest. Columbus publishes its campus ministries parish by parish, with the Dominicans at St Patrick's downtown caring for four colleges, and no young adult page of its own; Youngstown lists six campus centers under one office; Steubenville's site, when it was opened, said nothing about young adults at all.
From the places' own pages and the Latin Mass Directory, opened 20 September 2026; Cleveland is the one diocese that states an age
The campuses carry the weight of the map. The Fellowship of Catholic University Students places missionaries at eight Ohio campuses by its own list, and every one of them has a Catholic center with a street address: the St Thomas More Newman Center on West Lane Avenue at Ohio State, whose building is open from seven in the morning to ten at night; St Monica-St George on McMillan Street at Cincinnati; St Mary's in Oxford for Miami; Corpus Christi University Parish for Toledo; St Thomas More in Bowling Green; St John Bosco Chapel at Wright State, with a candlelit Mass on Monday nights at nine. Kent State and Youngstown State have their Newman centers under the Diocese of Youngstown, Case Western's ministry is a joint venture of the Newman association, Holy Rosary Church and the Diocese of Cleveland, and Athens has OU Catholics at Christ the King; Franciscan University in Steubenville is, in its own words, one hundred percent Catholic, and its chapel is on the page for the graduates who stay.
The Latin Mass in Ohio has been reorganised rather than removed, and the directory shows both halves: eleven churches marked as cancelled, and a shorter list that is still saying Mass. The Institute of Christ the King keeps two oratories, the Immaculate Conception on Superior Avenue in Cleveland and St Leo on Hanford Street in Columbus, each with a low Mass at eight and a sung Mass at half past ten on Sundays, and the Institute's page announces a young adults' silent retreat in August and a national young adult retreat. The Fraternity of St Peter serves Holy Family in Dayton and Queen of the Holy Rosary in Vienna, outside Youngstown; the Cincinnati Oratory sings the old rite at Old St Mary's in Over-the-Rhine; St Joseph in Toledo calls itself Toledo's Latin Mass parish and has a young adult choir that sings a cappella; St Mary in Akron has a solemn Mass at one on Sunday afternoons.
The Eastern Catholics of Ohio are on the page because two of their bishops sit here. The Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma has raised Holy Spirit Church on West 54th Street to the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, and its Byzantine Young Adults, by their own account, began in 2021 when a group of young men at a Theology on Tap asked for something after the youth group ended at eighteen; they now run a summer retreat at St Mary's in Marblehead, regular poustinias in the Cleveland region and a network of regional representatives. The Romanian Catholic Diocese of St George has its cathedral on 44th Street in Canton. Both are in full communion with Rome, and both liturgies are sung.
Where the community gathers
Ohio's practising Catholic singles gather in five places: Cleveland with Akron, Canton and the north-east; Columbus and the centre; Cincinnati with Dayton and the west; Toledo and the north-west; and the south-east along the river.
Cleveland, Akron, Canton and the north-east
Cleveland, Akron, Canton and the north-east hold twelve of the twenty-nine places: the diocesan young adult office on East 9th Street and the softball league's field at St John Bosco in Parma Heights, the young adult Mass at St Peter's on East 17th, Case's Newman ministry at Thwing Center, the Institute's oratory on Superior Avenue, the Byzantine cathedral in Parma and the Shrine of Mariapoch out in Burton, St Mary's Latin Mass in Akron, the Newman Center at Kent State, the Romanian cathedral in Canton, the Fraternity's parish in Vienna and the Newman Center at Youngstown State.
Columbus and the centre
Columbus and the centre are three places: Buckeye Catholic at the Newman Center on West Lane Avenue, the Institute's St Leo Oratory in Merion Village, and St Patrick's downtown, where the Dominicans keep the campus ministry for the art college, the community college, Franklin and the nursing school.
Cincinnati, Dayton and the west
Cincinnati, Dayton and the west are seven: Queen City Catholic at the archdiocesan center on East Eighth Street, the Catholic Bearcat house on McMillan Street, Old St Mary's in Over-the-Rhine, St Mary's Newman Center in Oxford, Holy Family in Dayton, St John Bosco Chapel at Wright State in Fairborn, and the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches.
Toledo and the north-west
Toledo and the north-west are five: Corpus Christi University Parish on Dorr Street, St Joseph's Latin Mass parish on Locust Street, the Rosary Cathedral with its Theology on Tap, St Thomas More at Bowling Green, and the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, an hour south.
The south-east
The south-east is two places on the Ohio River side of the state: OU Catholics at Christ the King in Athens and the chapel of Franciscan University in Steubenville.
Meeting places worth knowing
The office for Catholics between eighteen and thirty-nine, by its own definition: Theology on Tap on Wednesday evenings from seven to nine for people in their twenties and thirties, a summer softball league, retreats and a monthly e-newsletter.
1404 East 9th StreetCleveland
OH 44114
Sunday afternoons through the summer, open to anyone eighteen to thirty-nine of any skill level, co-sponsored by the diocese; new fields in the east and south of the diocese were being sought for the coming season.
6480 Pearl RoadParma Heights
OH 44130
A young adult Mass on Sundays at seven in the evening, one of the latest in the city by the parish's own boast, and a young adult Bible study on Thursdays at half past six; the Newman ministry for Cleveland State meets here.
1533 East 17th StreetCleveland
OH 44114
The Newman ministry of Case Western Reserve, run jointly with Holy Rosary Church in Little Italy and the diocese.
11111 Euclid AvenueThwing Center
Cleveland
OH 44106
The Institute of Christ the King's oratory: low Mass at eight and sung Mass at half past ten on Sundays, daily Mass on weekdays; the Institute's page lists a young adults' silent retreat in August.
4129 Superior AvenueCleveland
OH 44103
Holy Spirit Church, raised to the cathedral of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma; the eparchy's Byzantine Young Adults run a summer retreat, poustinias in the Cleveland region and regional representatives.
5500 West 54th StreetParma
OH 44129
The eparchy's shrine in Geauga County, with a Divine Liturgy, an annual pilgrimage and grounds to walk.
17486 Mumford RoadBurton
OH 44021
A parish of the Diocese of Cleveland with a solemn Latin Mass on Sundays at one in the afternoon.
750 South Main StreetAkron
OH 44311
The Catholic Student Association's home under the Diocese of Youngstown, which says it welcomes all Catholics and anyone interested, students or not.
1424 Horning RoadKent
OH 44240
The cathedral of the Romanian Catholic Diocese of St George, the see of the Romanian Greek-Catholics of the United States, in its own words.
1123 44th Street NECanton
OH 44714
The Fraternity of St Peter's parish outside Youngstown: low Masses on Sunday at eight in the morning and four in the afternoon, and on weekdays.
291 Scoville DriveVienna
OH 44473
Home of the Catholic Penguins, the diocese's ministry at Youngstown State.
254 Madison AvenueYoungstown
OH 44504
Buckeye Catholic, the campus ministry of Ohio State and, by the diocese's list, of Capital University too; the building is open from seven in the morning to ten at night.
64 West Lane AvenueColumbus
OH 43201
The Institute of Christ the King's oratory in Merion Village: low Mass at eight and sung Mass at half past ten on Sundays, Mass daily.
221 Hanford StreetColumbus
OH 43206
The Dominican parish downtown, which the diocese names as the pastoral care for the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus State, Franklin University and the Mount Carmel nursing school.
280 North Grant AvenueColumbus
OH 43215
The young adult community of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati: events, a sacramental hub every other Tuesday at the cathedral, and a text line for updates; behind it, the Center for the New Evangelization's college and young adult office.
100 East Eighth StreetCincinnati
OH 45202
The campus ministry of the University of Cincinnati, with FOCUS missionaries.
328 West McMillan StreetCincinnati
OH 45219
The Cincinnati Oratory's church in Over-the-Rhine: low Mass at half past seven and sung Mass at half past nine on Sundays, low Mass on weekday mornings.
123 East Thirteenth StreetCincinnati
OH 45202
St Mary's in Oxford, home of the Catholic RedHawks, with a chaplain and FOCUS missionaries.
15 South Poplar StreetOxford
OH 45056
The Fraternity of St Peter's parish in Dayton: low Mass at eight and sung Mass at half past ten on Sundays, low Mass on weekdays.
140 South Findlay StreetDayton
OH 45403
Raider Catholics, with a candlelit Mass on Monday nights at nine.
3650 Colonel Glenn HighwayFairborn
OH 45324
The relic chapel, adoration chapel and heritage museum in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches, with tours, prayer services and events on its own calendar.
2291 St Johns RoadMaria Stein
OH 45860
The University of Toledo's parish, first on the diocese's own list of young adult places.
2955 Dorr StreetToledo
OH 43607
Toledo's Latin Mass parish, in its own words: low Mass at seven and sung Mass at nine on Sundays, a young adults group and the Ecce Young Adult Choir, an a cappella choir of Catholic young adults that auditions each fall.
628 Locust StreetToledo
OH 43604
The cathedral of the Diocese of Toledo, named on the diocese's young adults page for its Theology on Tap.
2535 Collingwood BoulevardToledo
OH 43610
The basilica and shrine an hour south of Toledo, with healing Masses and pilgrimages on its calendar.
315 Clay StreetCarey
OH 43316
The Catholic Falcons' parish at Bowling Green State, with FOCUS missionaries.
425 Thurstin AvenueBowling Green
OH 43402
The Catholic student organisation of Ohio University, in the Diocese of Steubenville.
75 Stewart StreetAthens
OH 45701
The chapel of a university that describes itself as one hundred percent Catholic; on the page for the graduates who stay in the valley.
1235 University BoulevardSteubenville
OH 43952
Distances that decide everything
A schematic, not a map. Driving times as given in the text.
Ohio is a three-hour state. Cleveland to Columbus is two hours down Interstate 71 and Columbus to Cincinnati an hour and three quarters more; Toledo is two hours from Cleveland on the Turnpike and two and a half from Columbus; Youngstown is an hour east of Cleveland, Akron forty minutes south of it, Dayton an hour north of Cincinnati. A young adult in Akron can be at a Cleveland Theology on Tap on a Wednesday and home by ten; a Columbus student can be at Old St Mary's in Cincinnati for the sung Mass and back for supper.
The distances that matter are the small ones. Parma Heights, where the softball league plays, is twenty-five minutes from downtown Cleveland; the two Latin Mass oratories are each ten minutes from their city centres; the shrines are the exception, Carey an hour from Toledo, Maria Stein an hour from Dayton, Mariapoch forty minutes east of Cleveland, and a shrine is a Saturday, not a Wednesday.
The Catholic year in Ohio
Wednesday evenings
Cleveland's Theology on Tap, from seven to nine, roughly monthly; the diocese's calendar had October, November and December sessions when this page was written, each with a title of its own.
Sundays
The young adult Mass at St Peter's in Cleveland at seven in the evening; the sung Masses at half past ten at the two Institute oratories, at half past nine at Old St Mary's, at nine at St Joseph in Toledo, at one at St Mary in Akron; the Divine Liturgy at the two cathedrals in Parma and Canton.
Summer
The softball league on Sunday afternoons at St John Bosco in Parma Heights; the Byzantine Young Adults' retreat at St Mary's in Marblehead; the Institute's young adults' silent retreat in August.
The school year
The campus centers from late August to May: Buckeye Catholic's building open from seven to ten, the Monday candlelit Mass at Wright State, the fall auditions of the Ecce choir in Toledo; the summer is when the campus towns empty and the parishes fill.
Every other Tuesday
Queen City Catholic's sacramental hub at the cathedral in Cincinnati, the one fixed rhythm the archdiocese's young adult community publishes on its front page.
Pilgrimage days
The Mariapoch pilgrimage in Burton, the healing Masses at Carey, the tours and prayer services at Maria Stein: the days when a group from one parish stands next to a group from another.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Ohio
Every door on this page opens to a different age: eighteen to thirty-nine at the diocese in Cleveland, twenties and thirties at Theology on Tap, students at the Newman centers, no age at all at the oratories and shrines. None of the doors can tell you what the person inside believes, and the cana.love form was written to do that in four questions.
The first door: Sundays a month
The first door is Sunday: how often you attend church services, with five answers from every Sunday to rarely, and you decide who sees yours. It is the question Catholics on their own forums say they most want answered before a first coffee, and here everyone you see has answered it.
The second: your parish, in your words
The second is the parish: a free-text question, and so are what you do for a living and what the meaning of life is for you. Someone who writes St Leo Oratory or Corpus Christi University Parish has told you more than a photograph can.
The third: fasting, Scripture, faith
The third is practice: your attitude to fasting, from strict to learning, and how often you read Scripture, beside the question of faith itself, where Catholic is one answer alongside Orthodox Christian, Protestant and others. The list of Orthodox jurisdictions further down the form is for Orthodox members; a Catholic leaves it blank.
The fourth: one purpose, free, checked
The fourth is the site itself: one purpose of registration, looking for marriage; no subscription and no paid tier; every profile and photograph checked before it is visible, with anything doubtful going to a person; a permanent ban for anyone who asks another member for money; sign-in by a one-time link to your email, with no password to keep.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not a Catholic-only platform.
Orthodox Christians, Protestants and people of no confession who want the same kind of marriage are members too, and whom each member sees is set by that member's own filters. In a state where the Cleveland diocese's own young adult page welcomes people just entering back into their faith, a narrower promise would be false. What the site promises is exact: faith, practice and intention are questions on the form, and everyone you meet has answered them, as you did. The company behind it is Cana SpA of Santiago, Chile; the About page says the rest.
Meeting safely
- A first meeting belongs in a public room, and a Theology on Tap or a coffee after the sung Mass is one; tell a friend where you are, and keep the conversation on the site until you, not the other person, choose to move it.
- Money never crosses the table before you have met in person; on cana.love, being asked for it is a reason to report, and the one who asked is removed for good.
The guidelines page explains reviews, reports and appeals.
Common questions
Is cana.love available in Ohio?
It is: adults join from anywhere, Ohio included, and there is nothing to install, because the site opens in the browser of a phone or a computer, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German or Russian.
I am over 35. Where does this page leave me?
With more than most states, and with honest gaps. The Diocese of Cleveland's ministry runs to thirty-nine and says so, and its softball league and Theology on Tap go with it; the campus centers are for students. What has no ceiling is on the page too: the Latin Mass oratories and parishes, the two Eastern cathedrals, the young adult Mass at St Peter's, which names no age, and the three shrines. No diocese in Ohio publishes a group for people over forty that this page could find.
The young adult group takes people up to a certain age. Then what?
Then the parish, which never ages anyone out, and the places on this page that run without a ceiling; and a profile on cana.love, where the question is not how old you are but how many Sundays a month you are at Mass.
Where is the Traditional Latin Mass in Ohio?
Every Sunday at the Institute of Christ the King's oratories in Cleveland and Columbus, at the Fraternity of St Peter's parishes in Dayton and Vienna, at Old St Mary's in Cincinnati, St Joseph in Toledo and St Mary in Akron. The directory also lists eleven Ohio churches whose Latin Masses were cancelled; they are not on this page.
Are there Eastern Catholic parishes in Ohio?
Two whole eparchies are seated here: the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, whose new cathedral is on West 54th Street, and the Romanian Catholic Diocese of St George in Canton. The eparchy of Parma lists its parishes on a map rather than a text list, so this page names the cathedral and the shrine and leaves the parishes to that map.
Which groups say what age they are for?
One diocese: Cleveland, eighteen to thirty-nine for the ministry and the softball league, twenties and thirties for Theology on Tap. Toledo's list, Queen City Catholic, the Byzantine Young Adults and every campus center say young adults or students without a number, and this page quotes them exactly.
How far should I search in Ohio?
By diocese, roughly: Cleveland with Akron and Youngstown as one region, Columbus as another, Cincinnati with Dayton as a third, Toledo as a fourth. The state is three hours end to end on Interstate 71, so an evening event in the next diocese is a return trip; say on your profile which of the four you call home.
Where can I find every Catholic parish in Ohio?
On the six diocesan sites, each with its own parish finder, and on the two eparchies' maps; this page lists meeting places, not parishes, and says so.
Next steps
Go to Theology on Tap in Cleveland on a Wednesday, or to the sung Mass at whichever oratory is nearer, or to the campus center that was yours, and stay for the conversation after. Then, if you would rather know how many Sundays a month someone is at Mass before you know their face, create a profile on cana.love: it is free, and the form asks the questions this page cannot.
Reviewed on September 20, 2026.
Photographs, all Wikimedia Commons: The front and western side of the Immaculate Conception Oratory on Superior Avenue, Cleveland — Nyttend, Public domain · The nave of Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo — Nheyob, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches — Rfgagel, Public domain · Old St Mary's Church in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati — Warren LeMay, CC0