Orthodox Christian dating by place
Every guide below is about one place: where the cathedrals and parishes are, which jurisdictions keep a see there, where the monasteries stand, when the festivals fall and how far people really drive on a Sunday. Each one ends the same way, with how to look for a spouse inside that Church and what cana.love asks on its form.
cana.love is not an Orthodox-only platform: it is open to Christians of different traditions and to those who honor its values, and members set their own filters. The guides are for Orthodox singles because the Orthodox map of a state is the hardest to find in one place.
How these guides are made
Each guide starts from the directories the jurisdictions publish themselves: the Orthodox Church in America's parish listings by state and deanery, the Greek metropolises' parish lists, the Russian Church Abroad's diocesan directories, the Antiochian, Serbian and Romanian listings where they can be read, and outside the United States the archdiocesan and diocesan sites of each country. Every parish on a guide carries the street address and the official link those sources give, and the pin on the map is placed by that address.
Where a source could not be read, the guide says so on the page rather than filling the gap from memory: a jurisdiction whose directory is a map application without a text list, a diocese whose site was down on the day, a parish whose only address is a post-office box. What is written about a parish's history comes from that parish's own page or the diocesan record, and the date at the foot of each guide is the day those sources were last opened.
The photographs are from Wikimedia Commons under licences that allow reuse, each with its author named; a place without a free photograph shows its outline instead. Counts on this page are counts of places, parishes and monasteries in the guides, never of people.
More places are written one at a time, each checked against the parishes' own sites before it goes up.
Common questions
What is a place guide?
One page about one place, a state or a country: the cathedrals and parishes with addresses and official links, the monasteries, the jurisdictions present, the feasts and the distances between towns, and at the end how to look for a spouse inside that Church and what cana.love asks on its form. Every guide is checked against the parishes' own sites and carries the date of that check.
How do the filters work?
Choose places, jurisdictions or a language in the sidebar; within one group the choices add up (Greek or OCA), between groups they narrow (Greek and a monastery). The active filters appear as chips above the results, and the address in your browser changes with them, so a filtered view can be bookmarked or sent to someone.
Why are the counts different from what my parish would say?
The counts are of what the guides list: parishes with a verifiable address and official link, monasteries shown on the map, regions the text divides a place into. A jurisdiction whose directory could not be read is missing from a guide, and the guide says so; it is not a census of the Orthodox in a place.
Which jurisdictions are covered?
Eight appear on the guides so far: the Orthodox Church in America, the Greek archdioceses and metropolises of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, the Moscow Patriarchate, and the Antiochian, Serbian, Romanian and Carpatho-Russian churches. The form on cana.love names twelve, and a place is not filtered out for having only one.
Why is a guide written in Spanish, German or Portuguese?
A country's guide is written in the language of that country: Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Spain in Spanish, Germany, Austria and Switzerland in German, Brazil and Portugal in Portuguese. The English hub lists the English guides; the Spanish, German and Portuguese hubs list theirs, and the guide-language filter shows the others here.
Is there a guide for my state or country?
If it is not in the list, not yet. Places are written one at a time, each researched from the directories and checked before it goes up; the newest ones are at the top when the results are sorted by date reviewed.
Does the directory tell me who is on cana.love near me?
No. The directory is about the Church, not about members: it counts parishes and monasteries, never people, and it does not know where you are. Whom you meet on cana.love is decided by your own profile and filters after you register, and the site is not Orthodox-only.