Orthodox Christian dating in Georgia
Orthodox dating in Georgia: Atlanta and its ring of parishes, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and the monastery at Resaca, and how to find a spouse. Free of charge.
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Short answer
If you are Orthodox and single in Georgia, the Church is young here and it is growing from Atlanta outward: the Greek cathedral on Clairmont Road, whose community dates its birthday to 1905, is the seat of a metropolis that covers eight states, and around it, in Grant Park, Norcross, Marietta, Lilburn and Carrollton, stand parishes founded between 1976 and 2025, most of them by people who came to the Church as adults and wanted to worship in English. Beyond the city there is one parish to a town, Macon, Savannah, Augusta, Toccoa, and a Russian monastery in the hills at Resaca.
This page leads to cana.love, a free dating site for people who want marriage. The questionnaire asks which church you attend and how often, what you do about fasting, and which of twelve Orthodox jurisdictions you belong to, so a Greek from Clairmont Road and a convert from Grant Park can find each other by what they do rather than by a label.
Not an Orthodox-only site, and the section on what cana.love is and is not says who else is here.
Orthodox Christians in Georgia
Orthodoxy in Georgia begins with the Greeks of Atlanta, whose community counts 5 September 1905 as its birthday; sixty-five years later, on 20 December 1970, they dedicated the church on Clairmont Road and it was named a cathedral, and it is now the seat of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta. Savannah and Augusta have Greek parishes of their own. The rest is recent. St Mary of Egypt in Norcross has borne witness since 1976; in 1991 a community in Atlanta named itself after John Maximovitch before he was canonized, which the parish records as the first church in the world to bear his name, and became St John the Wonderworker in Grant Park; in 1988 believers in Savannah who had been driving to Atlanta and to the monastery at Resaca once a month petitioned for a mission of their own; in 1996 three people in Macon wanted an English-language Orthodox church in which to raise their families; and in 2025 eleven people in Carrollton began gathering for Reader's Vespers.
Since then the largest change has been the converts: adults who came to the faith with no Orthodox family behind them. It has been counted: in twenty parishes across six jurisdictions and fifteen states, the Orthodox Studies Institute found that two thirds of the people received since 2013 were under forty, that the thirties were the largest single age group, and that 44 percent came into the Church unmarried.
Orthodox Studies Institute, 2024; national figures, not Georgia's
Georgia was not measured on its own, but the person in those figures is the one at coffee hour in Grant Park or Macon: an adult who chose the faith, often from a Protestant home, and who is still single. Most of the parishes on this page were founded within living memory by exactly such people; the mission in Carrollton was founded in 2025, and the parish in Macon says why it exists in one sentence: an English-language Orthodox church to raise a family in.
Four jurisdictions cover most of the map, and several more are present. The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta is seated at the Annunciation Cathedral and has parishes in Savannah, Augusta and the Atlanta suburbs. The Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the South has St John the Wonderworker in Atlanta, St Mary of Egypt in Norcross, St Basil in Marietta, St Innocent in Macon, St Mary Magdalene at Savannah, St Timothy in Toccoa and St Patrick in Carrollton, and its Romanian Episcopate has SS Constantine and Helen in Lilburn. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia has a deanery for Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, with the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension at Resaca, parishes in Roswell and Cumming and missions in Rome, Canton and Dallas, two of them Spanish-speaking. The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America has SS Peter and Paul in Lilburn. Antiochian parishes exist as well, and the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops keeps the directory that lists them all.
Where the community gathers
Georgia is one Orthodox world with spokes: Atlanta and its ring, then Macon and the middle, Savannah and the coast, and Augusta on the river, with the north's monastery and a parish in Toccoa.
Atlanta and its ring
Atlanta and its ring hold most of the parishes on this page. The Greek cathedral is on Clairmont Road in the northeast of the city; St John the Wonderworker is on Cherokee Avenue in Grant Park; St Mary of Egypt is on Beaver Ruin Road in Norcross; St Basil is on West Atlanta Street in Marietta; Lilburn has both the Romanian parish of SS Constantine and Helen and the Serbian parish of SS Peter and Paul; the Russian Church Abroad is in Roswell and Cumming; and Carrollton, an hour west, has the newest mission of all. Within the ring the question is not whether there is a parish but which one, and the Perimeter at rush hour decides more than the miles.
Macon and the middle
Macon and the middle are an hour and a half down I-75. St Innocent on Rivoli Road is the Orthodox parish of middle Georgia, founded in 1996 and English-speaking from the start; Columbus and Athens have no parish on this page, and their people drive.
Savannah and the coast
Savannah and the coast are the far end of I-16. St Paul's, the Greek parish, is on West Anderson Street in the historic city; St Mary Magdalene, the OCA parish that grew from the mission of 1988, is at Rincon, twenty minutes up the road. Two and a half hours from Macon and four from Atlanta, the coast is its own world.
Augusta, and the north
Augusta on the river, and the north. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on Telfair Street is Augusta's parish, two and a half hours from Atlanta on I-20 and the same from Savannah. In the north, the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension at Resaca stands an hour up I-75 from the city, and St Timothy in Toccoa, founded in 2002, is the parish of the northeast corner.
Cathedrals and parishes worth knowing
The community dates its birthday to 5 September 1905; the church on Clairmont Road was dedicated and named a cathedral on 20 December 1970, and is the seat of the Metropolis of Atlanta.
2500 Clairmont Road NEAtlanta
Named in 1991 after John Maximovitch before his canonization; by the parish's own account the first church in the world to bear his name.
543 Cherokee Avenue SEGrant Park
The Serbian parish of Atlanta.
1558 Hewatt Road SWLilburn
Founded in 2025 by eleven people gathering for Reader's Vespers; the newest on this page.
101 Northwinds BoulevardCarrollton
Begun in 1996 by three people who wanted an English-language Orthodox church to raise their families in.
7301 Rivoli RoadMacon
The parish of Savannah, grown from the mission petitioned for in 1988.
1625 Fort Howard RoadRincon
The Greek parish of Augusta, with its festival in the autumn.
953 Telfair StreetAugusta
Founded in 2002, the parish of the northeast corner.
722 Collins StreetToccoa
For the parishes not on this list, the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops keeps the directory to which every jurisdiction contributes.
Distances that decide everything
A schematic, not a map. Driving times as given in the text.
In Atlanta the unit of distance is the Perimeter, and the numbers depend on the hour: Norcross, Lilburn, Marietta and Roswell are half an hour from the city at noon and twice that at six; Carrollton is an hour west; Resaca an hour north. Beyond the ring the numbers are honest: Macon is an hour and a half down I-75, Augusta two and a half on I-20, Savannah four by I-75 and I-16, Toccoa an hour and a half up I-85. Savannah to Augusta is two and a half hours, and neither is on the way to anywhere else.
Set your search by the Sunday you would actually drive, to the liturgy, to lunch and back, and not by what the map makes look close. For most Georgians that is Atlanta and its ring; downstate it is your own town and the hours to the next. A statewide search finds more people and turns every first meeting into a trip on I-75 or I-16, which suits some and not others; say on your profile which you are.
The Orthodox year in Georgia
Parish festivals
The Greek festivals are the largest open doors of the year. Augusta keeps its Fall Greek Festival; Atlanta has paused its festival while the cathedral campus is rebuilt, and offers a drive-through Greek feast in the meantime; the cathedral's own site carries the dates. They are food fairs to the city and reunions to the parish, and they are the weekend when a stranger at the tent is the whole idea.
The monastery
The Monastery of the Glorious Ascension at Resaca receives visitors by its schedule; the Savannah mission was born of monthly drives there. A Saturday at Resaca is where people from different parishes meet with no festival tent between them.
The new missions
Carrollton began with Reader's Vespers in 2025 and is still a mission; a mission's first years are when it needs people and notices every new face. If you live west of Atlanta, this is where you are expected.
The Annunciation
On 25 March the cathedral on Clairmont Road keeps the feast it is named for, and the seat of a metropolis of eight states fills with people from every parish of the ring that day.
Sunday of Orthodoxy
On the first Sunday of Great Lent the parishes of Atlanta gather for one Pan-Orthodox Vespers, every jurisdiction's clergy and faithful in one church; which parish hosts it changes each year, and the diocesan sites carry the notice.
Diocesan gatherings
Each diocese runs its own assemblies, retreats and clergy-laity meetings, posted on the diocesan sites above, and they are where the ring meets the spokes.
Dating across jurisdictions, and with converts
A Greek from the Annunciation Cathedral on Clairmont Road and a convert from St John the Wonderworker in Grant Park are both Orthodox, and the first thing they need to know is what that means at the table in Lent. The cana.love questionnaire is built for that conversation.
Practice, not labels
It asks where you worship and how often you are actually there, what you do about fasting, and whether you are looking for marriage or for someone to text with. Orthodox members choose from twelve jurisdictions listed one by one, OCA, ROCOR, Greek, Antiochian, Serbian, Romanian and the others, and Catechumen is a choice of its own for those still on the way in.
Five languages, Spanish included
Five languages, fully translated: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian. In Georgia that matters for the two Spanish-speaking missions of the Russian Church Abroad and for the Spanish Atlanta speaks at home; an optional AI feature translates a message between members who write in different ones.
Checked before it is visible
Every profile and every photo is reviewed before anyone else can see it, and anything doubtful goes to a person. Asking members for money is a permanent removal, without a warning.
Free, with no paid tiers
No subscription and no paid tiers: who viewed you and who liked you is free to see, which on most sites is the paid part. Optional AI extras run on credits, 150 of them at registration, and at present there is no way to get more. Sign-in is a one-time link or code to your email, with no password to lose.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not an Orthodox-only platform.
It is open to Christians of other traditions and to people who hold the same values about marriage without a confession of their own; every member sets filters for whom to see. In a state where the Church is young and most parishes were founded by people who came to it as adults, we would rather say that before you register. What the site promises is that your jurisdiction, practice and intention are questions on the form and that everyone you meet answered the same ones; the About page has the full account.
Meeting safely
- Never send money to someone you have not met; on cana.love asking for it ends the account for good.
- Meet in a public place, tell someone where you are going, and keep the conversation on the site until you are comfortable moving it elsewhere.
How reviews, reports and appeals work is written out on the guidelines page.
Common questions
Is cana.love available in Georgia?
Yes. It is a web application open to adults anywhere, Georgia included, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian; it runs in a browser, and there is nothing to install.
How far should I search in Georgia?
By the Sunday drive you would actually make for a liturgy and lunch: Atlanta and its ring for most people, your own town and the hours to the next downstate. Widen to the whole state only if I-75 or I-16 before a first meeting does not put you off.
Which jurisdictions have parishes in Georgia?
The Greek Metropolis of Atlanta, seated at the Annunciation Cathedral; the OCA Diocese of the South with eight parishes and missions; the Russian Church Abroad with a monastery at Resaca and parishes around Atlanta; the Serbian Church in Lilburn; and Antiochian parishes listed in the Assembly's directory.
Is there an Orthodox monastery in Georgia?
Yes, the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension at Resaca, an hour north of Atlanta on I-75; the Savannah mission was born of monthly drives there.
Where is the oldest Orthodox parish in Georgia?
The Greek community of Atlanta, which counts 5 September 1905 as its birthday and has had its cathedral on Clairmont Road since 1970.
Where can I find every Orthodox parish in Georgia?
In the directory of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops, kept with every jurisdiction, and on the diocesan sites: the Greek Metropolis of Atlanta, the OCA Diocese of the South, the ROCOR Eastern American Diocese and the Serbian Diocese of Eastern America.
Next steps
Create a profile at cana.love. The community guidelines are worth reading before your first conversation, and the About page says who runs the site and how. Then find your ring or your spoke, find its calendar, and find the person.
Reviewed on September 19, 2026.
Photographs, all Wikimedia Commons: Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation on Clairmont Road, Atlanta — Thomson200, CC0 · The dome of the Annunciation Cathedral, Atlanta — Thomson200, CC0