Orthodox Christian dating in New Hampshire
Orthodox Christian dating in New Hampshire: Greek parishes from Manchester and Nashua to the Lakes Region, the seacoast and Keene, and an OCA one in Claremont.
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Short answer
Several of New Hampshire's Greek parishes were started between the wars, and their own histories are full of small beginnings. In Keene, from 1928, a priest came once a month from Fitchburg in Massachusetts and served wherever the community could find a room, the Bon Ton restaurant on Main Street among them. In Manchester, families from Kalambaka and Kastraki, below the monasteries of Meteora, took the trolley to St George on Sundays until they built St Nicholas in their own neighbourhood.
Nine parishes are listed below with an address and a link to their own website: seven in the south, the Lakes Region and the seacoast, and two in the west. All but one are Greek; the other, Holy Resurrection in Claremont, belongs to the Orthodox Church in America and dates itself to 1909.
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Orthodox Christians in New Hampshire
Three of the Greek parishes date themselves to the same few years. St Nicholas in Manchester started in 1931 and received its first priest in 1933. St Nicholas in Portsmouth gives 1931 as its founding year. In Keene the community elected its first council in 1930 and adopted its constitution in 1931, when the Greek Orthodox diocese in Boston approved it.
Some still carry the marks of those beginnings. St Nicholas in Manchester says that the families who built it raised their children and grandchildren there, and that the grandchildren are now raising their own. It also serves the Liturgy in English, with an English sermon and congregational singing. Taxiarchai in Laconia holds its services in both Greek and English.
Orthodox Studies Institute, 2024; national figures, not New Hampshire's
Holy Resurrection in Claremont is different: a parish of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of New England that dates itself to 1909 and describes itself as English-speaking, diverse and welcoming to visitors.
For the people joining the Church now, there is a national study by the Orthodox Studies Institute, covering converts in twenty parishes across six jurisdictions and fifteen states. Of those received since 2013, two thirds were under forty, more were in their thirties than in any other decade, and 44 percent were single on the day they were received.
That is the whole country, not New Hampshire. Nobody has counted the state on its own; what we did instead was check nine addresses, each against the parish's own website on 24 September 2026.
Where the community gathers
The nine places fall into four parts of the state: Manchester and Nashua; Concord and the Lakes Region; the seacoast; and the west.
Manchester and Nashua
Manchester and Nashua hold three. St George, the Greek cathedral, is on Hanover Street in Manchester, and St Nicholas on Bridge Street, a couple of miles away. St Philip is on West Hollis Street in Nashua and describes itself as serving Nashua and southern New Hampshire.
Concord and the Lakes Region
Concord and the Lakes Region hold two: Holy Trinity on North State Street in Concord, and Taxiarchai on North Main Street in Laconia, where services are in Greek and English.
The seacoast
The seacoast holds two: the Annunciation on Locust Street in Dover and St Nicholas on Andrew Jarvis Drive in Portsmouth, twenty minutes apart.
The west
The west holds two: St George on West Street in Keene, and Holy Resurrection on Sullivan Street in Claremont. Berlin, in the north, has a Holy Resurrection church on Petrograd Street, and Concord and Manchester each have one more parish, but we could not read their websites, so they have no cards.
Cathedrals and parishes worth knowing
The Greek cathedral of Manchester, a parish of the Metropolis of Boston, with Orthros at half past eight and the Divine Liturgy at half past nine on Sunday.
650 Hanover StreetManchester
NH 03104
Started in 1931 by families from the Meteora region, with Orthros at half past nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday, in English with congregational singing.
1160 Bridge StreetManchester
NH 03104
A parish of the Metropolis of Boston, with Orthros at nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday, followed by a fellowship hour in its Agape Hall.
500 West Hollis StreetNashua
NH 03062
The Greek parish of the state capital, with Orthros at nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday.
68 North State StreetConcord
NH 03301
A parish of the Metropolis of Boston whose services are in both Greek and English, with the Sunday Liturgy at ten.
811 North Main StreetLaconia
NH 03246
Great Vespers on Saturday at six, and Orthros at a quarter to nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday.
93 Locust StreetDover
NH 03820
Founded in 1931, with Orthros at nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday, coffee afterwards, and a Thanksgiving dinner every year.
40 Andrew Jarvis DrivePortsmouth
NH 03801
A parish whose first Liturgies, in 1928, were served by a visiting priest in borrowed rooms; in the weeks we checked, the Liturgy was at ten on alternate Sundays, with the church open for prayer on the others.
70 West StreetKeene
NH 03431
A parish of the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of New England, founded in 1909, English-speaking and open to visitors.
99 Sullivan StreetClaremont
NH 03743
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times, as in the text.
New Hampshire is compact in the south. Manchester to Nashua is half an hour, Manchester to Concord under half an hour, and Concord to Laconia about forty minutes. Manchester to Portsmouth is about an hour, and Dover to Portsmouth twenty minutes. The west is further off: Manchester to Keene is about an hour and a half, and Keene to Claremont another hour.
So most of Orthodox New Hampshire sits within an hour of Manchester, and Boston is under an hour from Nashua. Two people in Nashua and Portsmouth can meet for coffee after work; someone in Claremont is closer to Vermont than to the seacoast.
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The Orthodox year in New Hampshire
Great Vespers in Dover
The Annunciation serves it on Saturday evenings at six.
The Divine Liturgy
At half past nine at the Manchester cathedral, and at ten in Nashua, Concord, Laconia, Dover, Portsmouth and at St Nicholas in Manchester.
Keene's rhythm
In the weeks we checked, the Liturgy at ten on alternate Sundays, and the church open for quiet prayer and candles on the others.
Coffee hour
Nashua's fellowship hour in the Agape Hall and Portsmouth's coffee after the Liturgy.
Thanksgiving in Portsmouth
St Nicholas hosts its annual Thanksgiving dinner at the Jarvis Center.
Holy Trinity on weekdays
The Concord parish serves the Liturgy at ten on the weekday feasts listed on its calendar.
Dating across jurisdictions, and with converts
Greek parishes, several of them founded between the wars, one serving in English with congregational singing, one alternating Greek and English, and an English-speaking parish of the Orthodox Church in America in Claremont: Orthodox New Hampshire is small but varied. This is how cana.love approaches it.
Twelve jurisdictions on one list
The form asks your jurisdiction and gives twelve answers: OCA, ROCOR, Greek, Antiochian, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Carpatho-Russian, Albanian, Catechumen and Other Canonical. The nine parishes here are Greek or OCA, and someone still being received can answer Catechumen.
Practice, asked outright
It also asks how often you are at the Liturgy, whether you keep the fasts, and whether you are hoping to marry. The site works in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian.
Checked before it appears
Before a profile or a photograph is shown to anyone, it is reviewed: automatically first, and then by a person whenever the automatic check is unsure. The rules published on the site forbid asking any member for money, and fraud ends in permanent removal with no warning.
Free, and no password
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What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not an Orthodox-only platform.
Catholics, Protestants and people still finding their place are members too, if they want the same kind of marriage, and you choose who can see you. New Hampshire's Orthodox parishes are few and mostly Greek; restrict a site to one jurisdiction and many people would have no one to write to. What the site promises can be checked: jurisdiction, practice and intentions are on the form, and you read them before you answer. It is run by Cana SpA, a company in Chile; the About page has the rest.
Meeting safely
- Keep the first meeting public and in daylight, with an agreed time to leave: coffee after the Liturgy, a café on Elm Street in Manchester or Market Square in Portsmouth. Tell a friend where you will be, and if it means an hour on the road, when you expect to be home. Your address can wait.
- Money has one rule. Before you have met in person, send nothing, lend nothing and pay for no one's travel, however the request is put. One report is enough for us to look into it.
The community guidelines explain how reports are handled and how to appeal a decision.
Common questions
Is there an Orthodox cathedral in New Hampshire?
Yes. St George on Hanover Street in Manchester is a Greek Orthodox cathedral.
Is there an English-language Liturgy?
St Nicholas in Manchester serves the Liturgy in English with an English sermon, and Holy Resurrection in Claremont describes itself as English-speaking. Taxiarchai in Laconia uses both Greek and English.
Are there parishes that are not Greek?
Holy Resurrection in Claremont belongs to the Orthodox Church in America. There is also a Holy Resurrection church in Berlin, whose website we could not read.
I live on the seacoast. Where should I go?
The Annunciation in Dover and St Nicholas in Portsmouth are twenty minutes apart; Dover also serves Great Vespers on Saturday evenings.
Why does Keene not have a Liturgy every Sunday?
In the weeks we checked, its calendar showed the Liturgy on alternate Sundays and the church open for prayer in between. Check its calendar before you go.
Can I use cana.love in New Hampshire?
Yes, anywhere in the state, from eighteen. It is a website; there is nothing to install.
Next steps
In Manchester, go once to the cathedral and once to St Nicholas; they are a few minutes apart. On the seacoast, try Vespers in Dover on a Saturday and the Liturgy in Portsmouth the next morning. And if you would like to know how someone lives the faith before you meet rather than after, make a free profile on cana.love and read theirs.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.