Catholic dating in Virginia
Catholic dating in Virginia: the Arlington directory, Theology on Tap and EXALT, the Richmond chapters and six campus ministries. Free, no subscription.
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Short answer
Virginia has two dioceses and each publishes a different kind of list. The Diocese of Arlington, which is Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, writes for young adults aged nineteen to thirty-five and keeps a directory of parish groups, close to forty of them, each with a name and a contact and, for some, a website: St Agnes in Arlington and St Ambrose in Annandale say twenty-one to thirty-five on their own pages, St Theresa in Ashburn eighteen to thirty-five with a speaker series every other week and pizza after. Around the directory the diocese runs what a parish cannot: Theology on Tap on the first Monday in Alexandria, the second in Manassas and the third in the Shenandoah Valley; EXALT, an evening of adoration and music that moves each month from St Mark in Vienna to St Agnes in Arlington to Purcellville and Lake Ridge; a Catholic Sports Club with free pick-up games; and CALLED, a Saturday conference in Reston in September for the same nineteen to thirty-five, single and married. The Diocese of Richmond, which is the rest of the state, lists its groups by region, Richmond and Charlottesville, Hampton Roads, Roanoke and Bristol, and runs Theology on Tap for roughly twenty-one to thirty-five in six chapters: the first Tuesday at St Michael in Richmond, the last Thursday in Virginia Beach, an evening at the Biltmore in Charlottesville. Thirty-two places have addresses on this page; the rest of both lists are named in the text.
The Latin Mass has two Fraternity of St Peter parishes, St Joseph in Richmond and St Benedict in Chesapeake, each with a sung Mass on Sunday and Mass every day, and diocesan Latin Masses in McLean, Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Winchester and Charlottesville. Campus ministry runs from Christendom College in Front Royal to George Mason, Marymount, Mary Washington, Shenandoah and the University of Virginia.
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 a contact on a directory cannot: 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 Virginia
Arlington's directory is a page of parish names with an email beside each, and the groups that have websites say more. St Agnes on North Randolph Street serves young adults, married or single, aged twenty-one to thirty-five, and hosts EXALT in November. St Ambrose in Annandale, for the same ages, gathers around monthly holy hours and a group chat. St Theresa's Ashburn Catholic Young Adults, eighteen to thirty-five, meet every other week for a speaker series with the parish's own priest on morality, dating, theology of the body and vocations, and eat pizza afterwards. St Timothy in Chantilly lists a Bible study, a holy hour with confessions, a book club and social events. All Saints in Manassas runs its ministry from its own site, with events, small groups and young adult family events. The rest of the directory is names: the Cathedral of St Thomas More, the Basilica of St Mary in Old Town Alexandria, St Rita, Queen of Apostles, Good Shepherd and St Joseph in Alexandria, St James Young Professionals and St Phillip in Falls Church, St Mark and Our Lady of Good Counsel in Vienna, St John Neumann and St Thomas à Becket in Reston, St Joseph in Herndon, Holy Spirit Fire and St Michael's Salt and Light in Annandale, St Mary of Sorrows in Fairfax, Nativity in Burke, St Andrew in Clifton, Christ the Redeemer and Our Lady of Hope in Sterling, Corpus Christi in Aldie, Holy Trinity in Gainesville, Holy Family in Dale City, St Elizabeth Ann Seton in Lake Ridge, St William of York in Stafford, St Mary and St Patrick in Fredericksburg, St Francis de Sales in Purcellville, St John the Baptist in Front Royal and Sacred Heart in Winchester. A group with only a name is still a group; the directory gives the email.
Across the diocese the young adult office runs the evenings the parishes share. Theology on Tap meets on the first Monday of the month at Murphy's Grand Irish Pub in Alexandria, on the second at Old Towne Sports Pub in Manassas and on the third at Osteria 510 in the Shenandoah Valley. EXALT, an evening of Eucharistic adoration with music and silence, travels the regions: St Mark in Vienna in early September, the St Robert Bellarmine Chapel at George Mason in mid-September, St Francis de Sales in Purcellville in October, St Agnes in Arlington in November, St Elizabeth Ann Seton in Lake Ridge in December. The Catholic Sports Club has offered free pick-up games for more than a decade, married or single, Catholic or not. CALLED, the diocese's conference for young adults aged nineteen to thirty-five, single and married, fills a Saturday in September at the Hyatt in Reston with Mass with the bishop, keynotes in English and Spanish, dinner, a salsa class and live music, with childcare. The campuses have chaplains and addresses: Christendom College in Front Royal, George Mason's Catholic Campus Ministry at the St Robert Bellarmine Chapel on Roberts Road with a FOCUS team, Marymount on North Glebe Road, Mary Washington on College Avenue in Fredericksburg with Mass at five on weekdays and at eleven and half past five on Sundays, and Shenandoah University in Winchester with a Sunday Mass at five in the Goodson Chapel and men's and women's groups on Saturday mornings.
From the dioceses' and the groups' own pages, opened 20 September 2026
The Diocese of Richmond's lists are shorter and, where the parishes have pages, give the evening. In the centre: the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart's young adult ministry, the Frassati Ministry at St Thomas Aquinas by the University of Virginia, RVA Connect with a book club and men's and women's groups at St Benedict in the Museum District, a Bible study at St Mary, a group at St Paul, and Thrive at St Michael the Archangel, which also hosts Theology on Tap on the first Tuesday from six to eight. In Hampton Roads: Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Newport News, whose weekly small group meets in Manion Hall on Tuesdays from seven to half past eight; Sacred Heart in Norfolk, which goes to a restaurant after the eleven o'clock Mass on the second Sunday and to Mass and adoration at half past five on the fourth Wednesday before dinner out; the Basilica of St Mary and Blessed Sacrament in Norfolk, Ascension, St Gregory the Great and St John the Apostle in Virginia Beach, St Bede in Williamsburg and St Joan of Arc in Yorktown. In the west: Blessed Sacrament in Harrisonburg, for people in their twenties and thirties on the second and fourth Thursday, with the JMU Catholic Dukes; Our Lady of Nazareth in Roanoke, twenties and thirties, about twice a month on Thursday at seven in the Youth Center; LOYAL at St Andrew in Roanoke; Holy Spirit in Christiansburg; Sacred Heart in Danville; Holy Cross in Lynchburg. Theology on Tap in this diocese is for roughly twenty-one to thirty-five, single or married: the first Tuesday in Richmond, the third Monday in Hampton Roads, the third Wednesday in the Tri-Cities, the last Thursday from seven to nine in Virginia Beach at a rotating venue, an evening at the Biltmore on Elliewood Avenue in Charlottesville, and Bristol on hold.
The Latin Mass directory for Virginia gives two Fraternity of St Peter parishes, St Joseph on Buford Road in Richmond, with a low Mass at half past eight, a sung Mass at eleven and a low Mass at half past one on Sundays and Mass every weekday, and St Benedict's on McCosh Drive in Chesapeake, with four Sunday Masses from seven and a daily schedule; and diocesan parishes with a Latin Mass on their calendar: St John the Beloved in McLean at noon on most Sundays and Monday evenings, St Rita in Alexandria at a quarter past nine on most Sundays with Tuesday and Thursday evening Masses and a holy hour four nights a week, St Patrick in Fredericksburg at half past twelve on Sundays, Sacred Heart of Jesus in Winchester, a parish of the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, at half past eight on Sundays, and Holy Comforter in Charlottesville at two on most Sundays; St Anthony in King George, a chapel in Leesburg and a school gym in Nokesville are on the directory as well and named here without a pin. No Eastern Catholic parish is on this page, because none was checked, and no shrine, because neither diocese's young adult pages name one.
Where the community gathers
Virginia's practising Catholic singles gather, on this page, in four places: Northern Virginia with Fredericksburg, the Shenandoah Valley and the west, Richmond with Charlottesville, and Hampton Roads.
Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg
Northern Virginia holds fifteen of the thirty-two places: the diocesan office and the Cathedral of St Thomas More on North Glebe Road and Cathedral Lane, St Agnes and Marymount in north Arlington, the Basilica of St Mary and St Rita in Alexandria, St Ambrose in Annandale, St John the Beloved in McLean, St Mark in Vienna, George Mason's chapel in Fairfax, St Timothy in Chantilly, St Theresa in Ashburn, All Saints in Manassas, and in Fredericksburg St Patrick and the Mary Washington campus ministry.
The Shenandoah Valley and the west
The Valley and the west are six: Christendom in Front Royal, Sacred Heart and Shenandoah University in Winchester, Blessed Sacrament in Harrisonburg, Our Lady of Nazareth in Roanoke and Holy Spirit in Christiansburg.
Richmond and Charlottesville
Richmond and Charlottesville are six: the diocesan office on Carousel Lane, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, St Benedict and St Joseph in Richmond, and St Thomas Aquinas and Holy Comforter in Charlottesville.
Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads is five: Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Newport News, St Bede in Williamsburg, Sacred Heart in Norfolk, St Gregory the Great in Virginia Beach and St Benedict's in Chesapeake.
Meeting places worth knowing
The office for young adults aged nineteen to thirty-five that keeps the parish directory and runs Theology on Tap, EXALT, the Sports Club and CALLED.
200 North Glebe RoadArlington
VA 22203
The cathedral's group on the diocesan directory.
3911 North Cathedral LaneArlington
VA 22203
For young adults, married or single, aged twenty-one to thirty-five; EXALT comes here in November.
1914 North Randolph StreetArlington
VA 22207
The university's Office of Ministry and Spiritual Life, with a chaplain.
2807 North Glebe RoadArlington
VA 22207
The Old Town basilica's group on the diocesan directory; Theology on Tap is in Alexandria on the first Monday.
310 South Royal StreetAlexandria
VA 22314
A sung Latin Mass at a quarter past nine on most Sundays, Tuesday and Thursday evening Masses and a holy hour Monday to Thursday; a young adult group on the directory as well.
3815 Russell RoadAlexandria
VA 22305
Ages twenty-one to thirty-five, in the parish and around it, with monthly holy hours.
3901 Woodburn RoadAnnandale
VA 22003
A sung Latin Mass at noon on the first, second, third and fifth Sundays, and a low Mass on Monday evenings.
6420 Linway TerraceMcLean
VA 22101
On the diocesan directory; EXALT opened its autumn here in September.
9970 Vale RoadVienna
VA 22181
The St Robert Bellarmine Chapel and campus ministry center, with a FOCUS team.
4515 Roberts RoadFairfax
VA 22032
Bible study, holy hour and confessions, a book club and social events.
13807 Poplar Tree RoadChantilly
VA 20151
Ages eighteen to thirty-five; a speaker series every other week with pizza after.
21371 St Theresa LaneAshburn
VA 20147
Events, small groups and young adult family events; Theology on Tap is in Manassas on the second Monday.
9300 Stonewall RoadManassas
VA 20112
A sung Latin Mass on Sundays at half past twelve, with low Masses on Monday and Tuesday mornings.
9151 Elys Ford RoadFredericksburg
VA 22407
Mass at five on weekdays, at eleven and half past five on Sundays in term, with adoration and confession three afternoons a week.
1614 College AvenueFredericksburg
VA 22401
The college's chaplaincy at Christ the King Chapel.
134 Christendom DriveFront Royal
VA 22630
A parish of the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem with a Latin Mass on Sundays at half past eight and a young adult ministry on the diocesan directory; Theology on Tap for the Valley is on the third Monday.
130 Keating DriveWinchester
VA 22601
Sunday Mass at five in the Goodson Chapel with food after; men's and women's groups on Saturday mornings.
1460 University DriveWinchester
VA 22601
For people in their twenties and thirties, on the second and fourth Thursday; the JMU Catholic Dukes are here too.
154 North Main StreetHarrisonburg
VA 22802
A laid-back group in its twenties and thirties, about twice a month on Thursday at seven.
2505 Electric RoadRoanoke
VA 24018
The parish's young adult ministry on the Diocese of Richmond's western list.
355 Independence BoulevardChristiansburg
VA 24073
The office behind the regional group lists and the Theology on Tap chapters for roughly twenty-one to thirty-five.
7800 Carousel LaneRichmond
VA 23294
The cathedral's group on the diocese's central list.
800 South Cathedral PlaceRichmond
VA 23220
RVA Connect, a book club and men's and women's groups, all at one Museum District parish.
300 North Sheppard StreetRichmond
VA 23221
A Fraternity of St Peter parish: low Mass at half past eight, sung Mass at eleven and low Mass at half past one on Sundays, and Mass every weekday.
828 Buford RoadRichmond
VA 23235
The parish by the University of Virginia and its young adult Frassati Ministry; Theology on Tap meets at the Biltmore on Elliewood Avenue.
401 Alderman RoadCharlottesville
VA 22903
A Latin Mass at two on the second, third, fourth and fifth Sundays.
208 East Jefferson StreetCharlottesville
VA 22902
A weekly small group in Manion Hall on Tuesdays from seven to half past eight, with social events around it.
100 Harpersville RoadNewport News
VA 23601
The parish's group on the diocese's Hampton Roads list.
3686 Ironbound RoadWilliamsburg
VA 23188
A restaurant after the eleven o'clock Mass on the second Sunday; Mass and adoration at half past five on the fourth Wednesday, then food and drinks nearby.
520 Graydon AvenueNorfolk
VA 23507
On the Hampton Roads list; the Virginia Beach Theology on Tap is on the last Thursday from seven to nine.
5345 Virginia Beach BoulevardVirginia Beach
VA 23462
A Fraternity of St Peter parish with four Sunday Masses, the sung Mass at eleven, and Mass every day.
521 McCosh DriveChesapeake
VA 23320
Distances that decide everything
A schematic, not a map. Driving times as given in the text.
Northern Virginia is one region measured in Beltway minutes: Arlington, Alexandria, Annandale, McLean and Vienna are within twenty minutes of each other, Fairfax and Chantilly thirty, Ashburn and Manassas forty-five. Fredericksburg is an hour south on Interstate 95 and Winchester an hour and a quarter west on Interstate 66, which is why Theology on Tap has three chapters and EXALT moves.
Richmond is two hours from Arlington on Interstate 95 and an hour and a quarter from Charlottesville on Interstate 64; Hampton Roads is an hour and a half east of Richmond on the same road, and Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Newport News are one region with bridges and tunnels in it. Roanoke is two and a half hours southwest of Richmond, and the west's groups in Roanoke, Christiansburg and Harrisonburg are each their own evening.
The Catholic year in Virginia
Every week
Tuesdays at Mount Carmel in Newport News; the speaker series every other week at St Theresa in Ashburn; the Sunday Latin Masses at St Joseph, St Benedict's, St Patrick and Sacred Heart in Winchester; Mass at five on weekdays at Mary Washington.
Mondays
Theology on Tap in Alexandria on the first, in Manassas on the second, in the Shenandoah Valley and in Hampton Roads on the third; the Monday evening Latin Mass in McLean.
Tuesdays to Thursdays
Theology on Tap in Richmond on the first Tuesday and in the Tri-Cities on the third Wednesday; Blessed Sacrament in Harrisonburg on the second and fourth Thursday; Our Lady of Nazareth in Roanoke on Thursdays twice a month; Virginia Beach's chapter on the last Thursday.
Sundays and Wednesdays
Sacred Heart in Norfolk after the eleven o'clock Mass on the second Sunday and at half past five on the fourth Wednesday; the Latin Mass at Holy Comforter at two and at St Rita at a quarter past nine on most Sundays.
Month by month
EXALT, the diocese's evening of adoration, in Vienna and Fairfax in September, Purcellville in October, Arlington in November and Lake Ridge in December; St Ambrose's monthly holy hour.
The year
CALLED in Reston on a Saturday in September; the 7 Churches Pilgrimage; the Sports Club's seasons; the school year at the six campus ministries.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Virginia
A contact on a directory, which is what Arlington publishes for close to forty parishes, tells you whom to write to. The cana.love form asks what the directory cannot, in four questions.
A contact on a directory; an answer on a form
The directory gives an email; the form asks how often you attend church services, with five answers from every Sunday to rarely, and you decide who sees your answer. It is the question people on the Catholic forums say they most want settled before a first coffee at Murphy's.
The directory gives a parish name; the form asks which is yours
The directory gives a parish name; the form asks which parish you attend, in your own words, and what you do for a living and what the meaning of life is for you, all free text, so that St Agnes or Mount Carmel has been said before anyone has to ask.
The directory says nothing of fasting; the form asks
The directory says nothing of fasting; the form asks your attitude to it, 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, and where the list of Orthodox jurisdictions further down is for Orthodox members and a Catholic leaves it blank.
The directory takes you at your word; the site checks
The directory takes the sender at their word; the site checks: registration has one purpose, looking for marriage; profiles and photographs are reviewed before they are shown, and a doubtful one goes to a person; asking another member for money is a permanent ban; there is no subscription and no paid tier; and sign-in is 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 without a confession who want the same kind of marriage are members as well, and each member's filters decide whom they see. In a state whose diocesan Sports Club says married or single, Catholic or not, on its own page, a narrower door than the parishes keep would be a strange thing for a site to promise. The promise the site makes 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
- Meet first where there are other people, a Theology on Tap or a Tuesday small group in Newport News, and let a friend know where; keep the conversation on the site until you, rather than the other person, decide to move it.
- No money changes hands before you have met in person; on cana.love the asking is grounds for a report, and the asker is removed for good.
The guidelines page explains reviews, reports and appeals.
Common questions
Is cana.love available in Virginia?
It is, from Bristol to Chincoteague: adults join from anywhere, and the site opens in the browser of a phone or a computer with nothing to install, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German or Russian.
I am over 35. Is there anything on this page for me?
Not much by the numbers, and this page says so rather than rounding up: Arlington's ministry stops at thirty-five, so does its CALLED conference, so do St Agnes, St Ambrose and St Theresa, and Richmond's Theology on Tap says roughly twenty-one to thirty-five. Harrisonburg and Roanoke say twenties and thirties, which reaches thirty-nine. The Sports Club says all young adults, married or single, Catholic or not, and the Latin Mass parishes and the Sunday Masses have no age at all.
The group I found stops at thirty-five. Then what?
The Latin Mass parishes, whose Sunday is the same for everyone; the parishes on the directory that say nothing about age because nobody asked; and a profile on cana.love, where the question is how many Sundays a month you are at Mass, and nobody asks the year you were born.
Where is the Traditional Latin Mass in Virginia?
Every day at the two Fraternity of St Peter parishes, St Joseph in Richmond and St Benedict's in Chesapeake; on Sundays at St Patrick in Fredericksburg and Sacred Heart in Winchester; on most Sundays at St John the Beloved in McLean, St Rita in Alexandria and Holy Comforter in Charlottesville; and, named here without a pin, at St Anthony in King George, a chapel in Leesburg and a school gym in Nokesville.
Are there Eastern Catholic parishes in Virginia?
None is on this page, because none was checked on the day; that is a limit of the page, not a claim about the state.
Which groups say what age they are for?
Nineteen to thirty-five: the Diocese of Arlington and its CALLED conference. Twenty-one to thirty-five: St Agnes, St Ambrose, and roughly so for Richmond's Theology on Tap. Eighteen to thirty-five: St Theresa in Ashburn. Twenties and thirties: Blessed Sacrament in Harrisonburg and Our Lady of Nazareth in Roanoke. The rest of the two directories give a name and a contact and no age, and this page does not add one.
Why does a parish on the directory have no evening here?
Because Arlington's directory gives names and emails, not schedules, and most of the parish sites could not be read; where a parish publishes its evening, Ashburn, Chantilly, Annandale, Newport News, Norfolk, Harrisonburg, Roanoke, the page gives it. For the others, the email on the directory is the door.
How far should I search in Virginia?
Northern Virginia as one region, forty-five minutes end to end; Richmond with Charlottesville as a second; Hampton Roads as a third, bridges and tunnels included; the Valley and the west by city. Say on your profile which one you live in, because Arlington to Richmond is two hours and to Norfolk three and a half.
Where can I find every Catholic parish in Virginia?
On the two diocesan sites, Arlington's parish and Mass finder and Richmond's, and on their young adult pages for the groups; this page lists meeting places, not parishes, and says so.
Next steps
Write to the email on the directory, or go to Theology on Tap on the first Monday in Alexandria, or the Tuesday small group in Newport News, or the sung Mass at eleven at St Joseph in Richmond, and stay for what comes 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 Cathedral of Saint Thomas More on Cathedral Lane, Arlington — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 · The entrance of the Basilica of Saint Mary in Old Town Alexandria — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Richmond — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Christ the King Chapel at Christendom College, Front Royal — APK, CC BY-SA 4.0