Orthodox Christian dating in Nevada
Orthodox Christian dating in Nevada: Greek, OCA and Serbian parishes in Las Vegas, Greek and Russian ones in Reno and Sparks, with addresses and service times.
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Short answer
Orthodox Nevada is two cities with a desert between them. Las Vegas in the south has Greek, Orthodox Church in America and Serbian parishes; Reno and Sparks in the north have a Greek parish and a Russian one. The drive from one to the other is about 435 miles, the better part of a day.
So the first thing to settle with anyone you meet here is which of the two they live in. Inside either city, the parishes are a short drive apart. Between them, a first coffee is a weekend trip.
This page sits on cana.love, a free site for people whose goal is marriage. It is not an Orthodox-only site, and a later section says what that means.
Orthodox Christians in Nevada
The five parishes with a card below cover four traditions. St John the Baptist in Las Vegas and St Anthony in Reno belong to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. St Paul the Apostle in Las Vegas is a parish of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the West. St Simeon Mirotocivi, also in Las Vegas, is Serbian. And Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia in Sparks belongs to the Russian Church Abroad, serving in English and Church Slavonic by turns within each service.
Who is coming into the Church now? The Orthodox Studies Institute counted converts in twenty parishes, six jurisdictions and fifteen states. Of those received since 2013, two thirds were under forty when they were received, the thirties were the largest single decade, and 44 percent came in unmarried.
Orthodox Studies Institute, 2024; national figures, not Nevada's
Those are national figures, not Nevada's. Nobody has published a count for the state, and this page does not guess one. It gives five addresses instead, each checked against the parish's own website or its diocese's directory on the day it was written.
Where the community gathers
The five places fall into two groups at opposite ends of the state.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas holds three, spread across the valley. St John the Baptist is in the south-west of the city on El Camino Road; St Paul the Apostle is on Annie Oakley Drive on the east side, with a community hall next door where the parish gathers for coffee after the Liturgy; St Simeon, the Serbian parish, is on Jones Boulevard west of the Strip. St Paul's own site describes its congregation as people from almost every walk of life and of great cultural diversity.
Reno and Sparks
Reno and Sparks hold the other two. St Anthony is on Lakeside Drive in south-west Reno, and Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia is on Pyramid Way in Sparks, a few miles east across the Truckee Meadows.
Cathedrals and parishes worth knowing
Orthros at a quarter to nine and the Divine Liturgy at ten on Sunday; each year, after its Greek festival, the parish runs six Wednesday-evening classes on the Orthodox faith.
5300 South El Camino RoadLas Vegas
NV 89118
A parish of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the West, with coffee in the community hall next door after the Liturgy.
5400 Annie Oakley DriveLas Vegas
NV 89120
The Serbian parish of Las Vegas, in the Serbian Church's Diocese of Western America.
3950 South Jones BoulevardLas Vegas
NV 89103
Great Vespers on Saturday at six, Matins at a quarter to nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday, and a service of supplication on Wednesday evenings.
4795 Lakeside DriveReno
NV 89509
A parish of the Russian Church Abroad, with the Vigil at five on Saturday and the Liturgy at half past nine on Sunday, in English and Church Slavonic.
1020 Pyramid WaySparks
NV 89431
Three more parishes appear in directories but have no card, because we could not confirm where they meet. An Antiochian parish of St Michael in Las Vegas is listed at two different addresses and its website did not answer. The Serbian parish of St John the Baptist in Reno gives only a mailing address, and its website did not answer either. And the Orthodox Church in America's directory lists a Romanian parish of the Dormition in Las Vegas with no address at all.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Distances as given in the text.
Las Vegas to Reno is about 435 miles by road, close to nine hours of driving across the Great Basin. Inside Las Vegas, St John the Baptist and St Simeon are a couple of miles apart and St Paul is about eight miles east of them. In the north, St Anthony and Holy Royal Martyrs are a few miles apart.
That makes Nevada two separate places for anyone looking for a spouse. A couple in Henderson and Summerlin can meet on a weeknight. A couple in Las Vegas and Reno are talking, sooner or later, about one of them moving.
It is better to know that at the start. Where you live and whether you would move are both questions on the cana.love form.
The Orthodox year in Nevada
Vespers and the Vigil
Vespers at six at St Anthony in Reno and the Vigil at five at Holy Royal Martyrs in Sparks.
The Divine Liturgy in both cities
At ten at St John the Baptist and at St Anthony, and at half past nine at Holy Royal Martyrs.
Supplication in Reno
St Anthony serves a service of prayer and healing every Wednesday at six in the evening.
The Greek festivals
Both Greek parishes, in Las Vegas and in Reno, run a Greek festival.
Six classes on the faith
St John the Baptist in Las Vegas teaches them on six consecutive Wednesday evenings after its festival, from seven to half past eight.
Coffee after the Liturgy
St Paul the Apostle invites everyone into its community hall next door after the Divine Liturgy.
Dating across jurisdictions, and with converts
Greek, OCA, Serbian and Russian parishes in a state that is really two cities: the parish nearest to you may not be of your own tradition, and the one that is may be a desert away. On cana.love four things come before anything else.
Twelve jurisdictions by name
The form names twelve jurisdictions one at a time: OCA, ROCOR, Greek, Antiochian, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Carpatho-Russian, Albanian, Catechumen and Other Canonical. Each parish on this page is under one of them, and a catechumen has a place on the list too.
Practice, not only affiliation
It asks what a jurisdiction does not tell you: how often you are at the Liturgy, whether you fast, whether marriage is what you are looking for. The site works in five languages, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian, which suits a Russian parish that already alternates English and Church Slavonic within each service.
Every profile checked first
Every profile and every photograph is checked before anyone can see it, by an automatic check first and by a person for anything it cannot decide. The published rules forbid asking another member for money, and fraud means permanent removal without a warning.
Free, with nothing to remember
Joining is free, with no subscription. There is no password: you sign in with a one-time link or code sent to your email.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not an Orthodox-only platform.
Catholics are on it, and Protestants, and people still finding their way who want the same kind of marriage. You choose who can see you. In a state where the nearest Orthodox parish may be a desert away, a site restricted to one jurisdiction would leave most people with nobody to talk to. What the site does promise can be checked: jurisdiction, practice and purpose are questions on the form, and the answers are there to read before you reply. It is run by Cana SpA, a Chilean company, and the About page has the rest.
Meeting safely
- Make the first meeting a daytime one, in a public place, with a time to part agreed beforehand: coffee after the Liturgy, a café off the Strip, a walk along the Truckee River in Reno. Tell a friend where you will be, and if the meeting involves a flight or a long drive, tell them when you expect to be back. Keep your home address to yourself for now.
- Money is simple. Before you have met in person, send nothing, lend nothing and pay for nobody's ticket, whatever the story. One report is enough for it to be looked into.
How reports are handled and how a decision can be appealed are set out in the community guidelines.
Common questions
I live in Henderson. Which parish is nearest?
St Paul the Apostle on Annie Oakley Drive is on the east side of the valley; the other two Las Vegas parishes are further west.
Is any of the Liturgy in English?
At Holy Royal Martyrs in Sparks, English and Church Slavonic alternate within each service. For the others, check the parish's own site before you go.
Which parish is Serbian?
St Simeon Mirotocivi on Jones Boulevard in Las Vegas. There is also a Serbian parish in Reno, but we could not confirm where it meets.
I am new to Orthodoxy. Where can I learn?
St John the Baptist in Las Vegas runs six evening classes on the faith every year after its festival, and any of the parishes here will talk to you after a service.
Why are some parishes named without a card?
Because their addresses disagreed between directories or their websites did not answer, and we list only places we could check.
Can I use cana.love in Nevada?
Yes, in either city, from eighteen. It is a website, so there is nothing to install.
Next steps
If you are in Las Vegas, visit all three of the city's parishes over three Sundays before settling; if you are in Reno or Sparks, the Saturday Vigil in Sparks and the Sunday Liturgy in Reno make one weekend. And if you would like to know where someone stands before the first coffee, make a profile on cana.love: it is free, and it asks what a coffee hour leaves for later.
Reviewed on September 23, 2026.