Catholic dating in Washington
Catholic dating in Washington: thirty-five parish young adult groups around Puget Sound, the campus ministries and the Latin Mass. Free, no subscription.
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- Diocese
- Regular gathering
- Young adults
- Campus ministry
- Latin Mass
Short answer
The Archdiocese of Seattle answers the first question directly: its young adult ministry is for anyone between eighteen and thirty-nine, and it keeps a list of thirty-five parish young adult groups from Bellingham to Vancouver, sorted into four regions of Western Washington, with a link for each. What the list does not give is addresses or evenings, so this page went to the groups' own sites for both and pinned the fifteen that could be read: St James Cathedral's young adults, who meet on the first and third Sunday of the month after the half-past-five Mass; the young professionals at Christ Our Hope downtown; Frassati, the large young adult community based at the Newman Center by the University of Washington, with weekly events and more than fifteen small groups by its own count; parish groups in Kirkland, Edmonds, Tacoma, Mount Vernon and Vancouver; the campus ministries at Seattle University, Saint Martin's and Western Washington; the Fraternity of St Peter's parishes in Edmonds and Tacoma; and the Latin Mass at St Francis Xavier in Spokane. The archdiocese adds Theology on Tap, a Holy Thursday pilgrimage, retreats, and co-ed softball in summer and volleyball in autumn through the CYO.
One age is stated and the page quotes it: eighteen to thirty-nine, from the archdiocese's own page. Spokane's diocese publishes no young adult page and Yakima's site could not be read; the campus ministries say students; the page adds nothing.
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 beside you at the cathedral on the third Sunday would want to know by the fifth: 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 Washington
The archdiocese explains its own method on its group-finder page: with an archdiocese of 24,814 square miles and a hundred and sixty-eight parishes, missions and pastoral centers, and very few parishes with a young adult minister on staff, it works through networks of young adult leaders and parish staff, grouped into four regions, northern and Snohomish, the Eastside with north and south Seattle, the Olympic peninsula with south King County and Pierce, and the South Sound with the southern deaneries. The thirty-five groups it lists run from All Saints in Puyallup to Viking Catholic at Western Washington University, and most have an email, an Instagram and a page.
Seattle itself has three anchors on this page. St James Cathedral on First Hill says its young adults meet every first and third Sunday of the month after the 5:30 Mass. Christ Our Hope, the parish downtown on Second Avenue, keeps a young professionals group. And in the University District, Frassati describes itself as a large but welcoming community of young adults based out of Blessed Sacrament Church and the UW Newman Center, with people from all over Seattle, weekly events, more than fifteen small groups and volunteer teams; the Newman Center itself, Prince of Peace on 20th Avenue NE, lists a graduates' and young professionals' ministry beside its students' one and FOCUS missionaries. Seattle University's ministry is on 12th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
From the archdiocese's and the groups' own pages, opened 20 September 2026
Around the Sound, the parish groups the page could read have addresses: St John Vianney in Kirkland on the Eastside; Holy Rosary in Edmonds to the north; St Patrick's young adult fellowship in Tacoma to the south; the Skagit Valley parishes in Mount Vernon, listed by the archdiocese as one young adult community; and Holy Redeemer in Vancouver on the Columbia, at the far south-west of the archdiocese. Western Washington University's Newman ministry in Bellingham, Viking Catholic, and Saint Martin's University in Lacey complete the campus map the archdiocese publishes, five ministries in all.
The Latin Mass is well served. The Fraternity of St Peter has two parishes in the archdiocese, North American Martyrs in Edmonds, with four Sunday Masses including a high Mass at half past ten, and St Joseph in Tacoma; east of the mountains, St Francis Xavier on East Providence Avenue in Spokane keeps the old rite on Sundays.
What could not be read is said here. Half of the archdiocese's thirty-five groups have parish sites that refused the page's request or gave no address, so they are named in the text and not pinned; Spokane's diocese lists ministries but no young adults, and Gonzaga's and the Pullman campus's pages could not be read; Yakima's site could not be read at all. No Eastern Catholic parish or shrine is on the page, because no source for either could be opened on the day.
Where the community gathers
Washington's practising Catholic singles gather in five places on this page: Seattle, the Eastside and the north, the South Sound, the south-west on the Columbia, and Spokane.
Seattle
Seattle holds five of the fifteen places: the archdiocesan office on Marion Street, St James Cathedral on Ninth Avenue, Christ Our Hope on Second Avenue, the Newman Center and Frassati on 20th Avenue NE, and Seattle University on 12th Avenue.
The Eastside and the north
The Eastside and the north are five: St John Vianney in Kirkland, Holy Rosary and North American Martyrs in Edmonds, the Skagit Valley parishes in Mount Vernon, and Viking Catholic in Bellingham.
Tacoma and the South Sound
The South Sound is three: St Patrick's and St Joseph's in Tacoma and Saint Martin's in Lacey.
Vancouver and the Columbia
The south-west is one: Holy Redeemer in Vancouver, three hours down Interstate 5.
Spokane and the east
Spokane is one: St Francis Xavier, four and a half hours east over the pass.
Meeting places worth knowing
The ministry for Catholics between eighteen and thirty-nine, by its own page: Theology on Tap, a Holy Thursday pilgrimage, retreats, softball and volleyball, the Scroll newsletter, and the list of thirty-five parish groups and five campus ministries.
910 Marion StreetSeattle
WA 98104
The cathedral's young adults meet on the first and third Sunday of the month after the 5:30 Mass, by the cathedral's own page.
804 9th AvenueSeattle
WA 98104
The young professionals' group of the downtown parish, on the archdiocese's list.
1900 2nd AvenueSeattle
WA 98101
A large young adult community based at Blessed Sacrament and the UW Newman Center, with weekly events and more than fifteen small groups by its own count; the Newman Center adds a graduates' and young professionals' ministry and FOCUS missionaries.
4502 20th Avenue NESeattle
WA 98105
The university's ministry on Capitol Hill, one of the archdiocese's five campus ministries.
901 12th AvenueSeattle
WA 98122
The Eastside parish's young adult ministry, on the archdiocese's list.
12600 84th Avenue NEKirkland
WA 98034
The parish's young adults page and group, north of the city.
760 Aloha StreetEdmonds
WA 98020
The Fraternity of St Peter's parish: Sunday Masses at seven, half past eight, half past ten sung and one in the afternoon.
9924 232nd Street SWEdmonds
WA 98020
The Skagit parishes, listed by the archdiocese as one young adult community.
215 N 15th StreetMount Vernon
WA 98273
The Newman ministry for Western, with a director named on the archdiocese's page.
714 N Garden StreetBellingham
WA 98225
The parish's young adult fellowship in Old Tacoma.
1001 N J StreetTacoma
WA 98403
The Fraternity of St Peter's second parish in the archdiocese, with a low Mass at seven on Sundays and more after it.
602 S 34th StreetTacoma
WA 98418
The university's ministry near Olympia, on the archdiocese's list of five.
5000 Abbey Way SELacey
WA 98503
The parish's young adult group at the southern end of the archdiocese.
17010 NE 9th StreetVancouver
WA 98684
A parish of the Diocese of Spokane with the old rite on Sundays, beginning with a low Mass at half past seven.
545 E Providence AvenueSpokane
WA 99207
Distances that decide everything
A schematic, not a map. Driving times as given in the text.
Western Washington is one corridor with water in the middle. Edmonds is half an hour north of downtown Seattle, Kirkland half an hour east across the lake, Tacoma forty minutes south, Lacey an hour, Mount Vernon an hour north, Bellingham an hour and a half; Vancouver is three hours down Interstate 5 and belongs to Portland's orbit more than Seattle's, though it is the same archdiocese. A young adult in Seattle can keep the cathedral's first and third Sundays and Frassati's weeknights without a car.
Spokane is the other Washington: four and a half hours east over Snoqualmie Pass, its own diocese and its own weather, and a Catholic there dates within the Inland Northwest or writes.
The Catholic year in Washington
First and third Sundays
St James Cathedral's young adults, after the 5:30 Mass, the one fixed evening in Seattle a stranger can walk into with the cathedral's own page as the invitation.
Weeknights
Frassati's weekly events and small groups in the University District, through the school year and beyond, by the community's own description.
Sundays
The high Mass at half past ten at North American Martyrs in Edmonds, the early low Masses at St Joseph in Tacoma and St Francis Xavier in Spokane.
Summer and autumn
The archdiocese's co-ed softball league in summer, registration due in early May, and its co-ed volleyball in autumn, registration at the end of August, both with the CYO.
Holy Week
The archdiocese's Holy Thursday pilgrimage for young adults, named on its page beside Theology on Tap and the retreats.
The school year
Five campus ministries from Bellingham to Lacey, fullest from late September to June, when the parish groups on the archdiocese's list carry the summer.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Washington
The archdiocese's page is a list of names, thirty-five groups and five campuses, and a list of names is where you start. The cana.love form is a list of answers, and it is where the archdiocese's list runs out.
A list of names; a form of answers
A list of names tells you a group exists at St John Vianney; the form tells you how often the person you are looking at attends church services, with five answers from every Sunday to rarely, chosen by them and shown to whom they choose. On the Catholic forums that is the question people say they wish they could ask first.
The list gives the parish; the form asks yours
A list of names tells you the parish of the group; 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 James Cathedral or Holy Rosary, Edmonds has been said before anyone asks.
The list is silent on fasting; the form asks
A list of names says nothing about 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 list cannot vouch; the site checks
A list of names cannot vouch for anyone; the site is built to need no vouching: 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.
Its members are Orthodox Christians, Protestants and people of no confession as much as Catholics, all wanting the same kind of marriage, and each member's own filters decide whom they see. In an archdiocese that runs a young adult ministry with very few paid ministers and a great many volunteer leaders, a narrower promise would sound like a sales pitch, and it would be false. What the site does promise 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
- The first meeting happens where there are other people, the cathedral's Sunday evening or a Frassati small group, with a friend told where you are; the conversation stays on the site until you decide otherwise, and not before.
- Money never travels before you have met in person; on cana.love the request alone is grounds for a 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 Washington?
It is, on both sides of the mountains: 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?
Yes, up to thirty-nine: the Archdiocese of Seattle draws its line there and says so, and the parish groups on its list go with it; the campus ministries are for students. What has no ceiling is on the page too: the three Latin Mass parishes, the cathedral's Sunday Mass itself, and the archdiocese's softball and volleyball, which are CYO adult leagues. No diocese in Washington 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?
The parish, which keeps you when the group's page no longer applies; the Latin Mass parishes and the cathedral, which never asked; and a profile on cana.love, where the question is how many Sundays a month you are at Mass, not your year of birth.
Where is the Traditional Latin Mass in Washington?
At the Fraternity of St Peter's two parishes, North American Martyrs in Edmonds and St Joseph in Tacoma, and on Sundays at St Francis Xavier in Spokane; a search of the directory for the state returned no others still offered.
Are there Eastern Catholic parishes in Washington?
None are on this page, because no Eastern Catholic source for the state could be opened on the day; that is a gap in what the page could read, not a claim about the state.
Which groups say what age they are for?
The archdiocese, eighteen to thirty-nine, on its young adults page; its Hispanic young adult camp says eighteen to thirty-five. The thirty-five parish groups say young adults without a number, and this page quotes them exactly.
How far should I search in Washington?
Seattle with the Eastside and Edmonds as one region if you will cross the lake or drive half an hour; Tacoma and the South Sound as a second; Bellingham and the Skagit Valley as a third; Vancouver with Portland; Spokane as its own. Say on your profile which side of the mountains you live on, because the dioceses do.
Where can I find every Catholic parish in Washington?
On the three diocesan sites, each with its own parish finder, and on the archdiocese's group-finder page for young adult groups; this page lists meeting places, not parishes, and says so.
Next steps
Go to the cathedral on the first or third Sunday and stay after the 5:30 Mass, or find a Frassati small group, or the high Mass in Edmonds, or the parish group nearest you on the archdiocese's list. 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: St James Cathedral on First Hill, Seattle — Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0