Catholic dating in Oklahoma
Catholic dating in Oklahoma: Blessed Stanley Rother, Latin Mass parishes in Edmond and Tulsa, Clear Creek Abbey, OU's student parish, and a Mass in Zomi.
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On 24 September 2017, Pope Francis told the crowd in St Peter's Square that the day before, in Oklahoma City, Stanley Francis Rother had been beatified: a missionary priest, in the Pope's words, killed in hatred of the faith for his work of evangelisation and for the poorest. Born in Okarche, Rother served parishes across Oklahoma, among them Tulsa's Holy Family Cathedral, before he was killed in 1981 as pastor of a church in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. The cathedral in Tulsa keeps a first-class relic of him.
Oklahoma's two dioceses, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, share him: the beatification in one, the relic in the other.
Fourteen places are listed below, each with an address and a link to its own page or its diocese's: two parishes of the traditional Latin Mass with young adult groups, a Benedictine abbey that sings the old rite, the student parish at the University of Oklahoma, Maronite and Syro-Malabar communities, a Mass in the Zomi language, and a church in north Tulsa founded after the Race Massacre. They are not every parish; they are the places whose pages we could read.
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Catholics in Oklahoma
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City covers the west and centre of the state and the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma the east. Most of the archdiocese's parish websites refused automated visitors, so the Oklahoma City side of this page is thinner than we would like; Tulsa's parishes were open.
Two parishes of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter say whom their young adult groups are for. At St Damien in Edmond, the group is for Catholic men and women, single or married, aged eighteen to thirty; at Most Precious Blood in Tulsa, for unmarried parishioners aged eighteen to thirty-five. Clear Creek Abbey, in rural Cherokee country east of Tulsa, sings its daily High Mass in Latin according to the 1962 Missal, with the approval of the Holy See.
From the Vatican's, the dioceses' and the parishes' own pages, opened 24 September 2026
Several parishes pray in other languages. At St James the Greater in Oklahoma City, four of the seven weekend Masses are in Spanish and the Sunday late-morning Mass is signed in ASL; St Catherine in west Tulsa has its Sunday Mass in Zomi; St Clement in Bixby calls itself bilingual.
Where the community gathers
The fourteen places fall into three parts of the state: Oklahoma City and Edmond, Norman, and Tulsa with the country east of it.
Oklahoma City and Edmond
Oklahoma City and Edmond hold three: St Damien in Edmond, St James the Greater, and the Syro-Malabar parish of the Holy Family.
Norman
Norman holds three: St Thomas More, the University of Oklahoma's parish, Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Mission, and St Mark the Evangelist, where the Maronite liturgy was first celebrated in 2007.
Tulsa and the east
Tulsa and the east hold eight: Holy Family Cathedral, Most Precious Blood, St Monica in north Tulsa, St Catherine, the Church of the Madalene, St Clement in Bixby, St Henry in Owasso and Clear Creek Abbey near Hulbert.
Meeting places worth knowing
A parish of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter on a rural site north of the city, dedicated in 2010, where every Mass is in the Extraordinary Form; its young adult group, for ages eighteen to thirty, meets once a month.
8455 NW 234th StreetEdmond
OK 73025
A parish with Sunday Masses in English and Spanish and an eleven o'clock Mass interpreted in American Sign Language.
4201 South McKinley AvenueOklahoma City
OK 73109
The Syro-Malabar parish of Oklahoma City, in the St Thomas Eparchy of Chicago.
3901 SW 29th StreetOklahoma City
OK 73119
The parish of the University of Oklahoma, with Emmaus, a student Mass and gathering on Wednesday nights at eight, and Sunday Supper during the school year.
100 Stinson StreetNorman
OK 73072
A Maronite mission serving the Oklahoma City area, with a Sunday Liturgy at eleven and a Spanish healing Mass every Sunday evening.
500 Alameda StreetNorman
OK 73071
A Norman parish that welcomes visitors passing through, and where Oklahoma's Maronites held their first liturgy in 2007.
3939 West Tecumseh RoadNorman
OK 73072
The cathedral of the Diocese of Tulsa, founded in 1899, which keeps a first-class relic of Blessed Stanley Rother, with Sunday Masses from eight in the morning to five.
820 South Boulder AvenueTulsa
OK 74119
A parish of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, following the 1962 rubrics, with a young adult group for unmarried parishioners aged eighteen to thirty-five.
3029 South 57th West AvenueTulsa
OK 74107
A north Tulsa parish, which its history page traces to a bishop's decision to build churches for African Americans in segregated Oklahoma, in a community rebuilding after the Race Massacre of 1921; dedicated in 1936.
633 East Marshall PlaceTulsa
OK 74106
A west Tulsa parish founded in 1925 for refinery and railroad workers, with its Sunday Mass in the Zomi language.
4532 South 25th West AvenueTulsa
OK 74107
A midtown parish with a Mass in Latin and English on Wednesday evenings.
3188 East 22nd StreetTulsa
OK 74114
A bilingual parish, established in 1958, with Masses in English and Spanish on Saturday and Sunday.
15501 South Memorial DriveBixby
OK 74008
A parish with Sunday Masses in English and Spanish, where marriages are blessed at the end of each Mass on the last weekend of the month.
8500 North Owasso ExpresswayOwasso
OK 74055
A Benedictine abbey of the Solesmes Congregation, founded in 1999 from Fontgombault in France, whose daily High Mass at ten and Divine Office are open to the public.
5804 West Monastery RoadHulbert
OK 74441
Some places appear without a card. The Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in south Oklahoma City has a website that refused automated visitors, so we could not confirm its address or Masses from its own page. Prague, an hour east of Oklahoma City, has the National Shrine of the Infant Jesus of Prague in the Czech settlers' church of St Wenceslaus.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times, as in the text.
Norman is about half an hour south of Oklahoma City, and St Damien in Edmond about three quarters of an hour north. Tulsa is around two hours north-east of Oklahoma City on the turnpike, and Clear Creek Abbey about an hour east of Tulsa. Around Tulsa, the parishes on this page are within about twenty-five minutes of each other.
So Catholic Oklahoma has two centres, Oklahoma City with Norman and Edmond, and Tulsa. Inside each, two people can meet on a weeknight; between them, it takes planning.
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The Catholic year in Oklahoma
Emmaus at OU
St Thomas More's student Mass and gathering, from eight.
Young adults in Edmond
St Damien's group, for ages eighteen to thirty.
Sung Mass at the abbey
Clear Creek's High Mass at ten, in Gregorian chant.
Mass in Zomi
St Catherine in west Tulsa, at eleven.
Healing Mass in Spanish
Our Lady of Lebanon in Norman, at five.
Blessing for married couples
St Henry in Owasso, at the end of each Mass.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Oklahoma
A Maronite Liturgy in Norman, the Syro-Malabar Qurbana in Oklahoma City, a Mass in Zomi in Tulsa and the old rite at Clear Creek: Catholics in Oklahoma pray in many ways. cana.love asks which is yours.
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Parish and meaning, in your own words
Parish and meaning go in your own words; an abbey in the Cherokee hills and a student parish in Norman would not fit one list.
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What cana.love is and is not
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The site also serves Orthodox Christians, Protestants and those still between churches, provided they seek the same kind of marriage, and you choose who can see you. Oklahoma's Catholic parishes pray in Spanish, Zomi and Malayalam as well as English, and a site that shut its door would be narrower than they are. Its one promise is visible: every profile carries faith, practice and intentions for you to read first. Cana SpA, a company in Chile, operates it; the About page has the rest.
Meeting safely
- For a first meeting choose daylight and a public place, and agree a time to leave: coffee after Mass, a café on Campus Corner in Norman or in the Tulsa Arts District. Tell a friend where you will be and, for the turnpike after dark, when you expect to be back. Keep your address to yourself for now.
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Common questions
Who is Blessed Stanley Rother?
A priest born in Okarche who served Oklahoma parishes, including Tulsa's cathedral, and was killed in Guatemala in 1981; Pope Francis announced his beatification in Oklahoma City in 2017.
Which young adult groups name an age?
St Damien in Edmond, eighteen to thirty, single or married; Most Precious Blood in Tulsa, eighteen to thirty-five, unmarried.
Where is the traditional Latin Mass?
St Damien in Edmond and Most Precious Blood in Tulsa, both of the Fraternity of St Peter, and daily at Clear Creek Abbey.
Are there Eastern Catholic churches?
Our Lady of Lebanon, a Maronite mission in Norman, and Holy Family, a Syro-Malabar parish in Oklahoma City.
Is there anything for students?
St Thomas More, the University of Oklahoma's parish, with its Wednesday night Mass and Sunday Supper.
Can I use cana.love anywhere in Oklahoma?
Yes, from eighteen. It works in a browser, with nothing to install.
Next steps
In Norman, go to Emmaus on a Wednesday; in Edmond or Tulsa, ask about the young adult groups at the Fraternity's parishes. And if you would like to see how someone practises before the first meeting, open a free cana.love profile and read theirs.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.