Orthodox Christian dating in Utah
Orthodox Christian dating in Utah: Greek parishes in Salt Lake City, Holladay, Sandy, Ogden and Price, and other parishes and missions around Salt Lake.
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Short answer
The Greek churches of Utah were built by men who came to work. The Greek community's own history says that by 1904 Salt Lake City was a hub of mining and railroads, with labour needed at the Bingham Canyon copper pit, at the smelters and in the coal mines of Carbon County. Holy Trinity was dedicated in Salt Lake City on 29 October 1905; the coal miners of Carbon County dedicated their own church in Price on 15 August 1916.
Five Greek parishes are listed below with an address and a link to their own website, from Ogden to Price. Other Orthodox parishes and missions, which we could not check as closely, are named further down.
This page belongs to cana.love, a free site for people who want to marry. It is not only for the Orthodox, and a later section explains what that means in practice.
Orthodox Christians in Utah
Holy Trinity's history is proud of its place on the map: it calls the 1905 parish the fourteenth organised Greek Orthodox community in the United States and the oldest between St Louis and San Francisco. The present cathedral on 300 West was begun in 1923, when the first church had grown too small.
Price's history is the story of a quarrel settled. The first Greeks in Carbon County came to work in the Castle Gate coal mine. In 1914 services were held for some months in the back of a coffee house in Helper, and Helper's Greeks wanted the church there; a committee from Price persuaded them otherwise, and the church was built in Price.
Orthodox Studies Institute, 2024; national figures, not Utah's
Ogden waited longer for a church of its own. Its parish history remembers special services held in a Seventh-day Adventist church on 22nd Street and an Episcopal church on 24th Street, and, when that was not possible, the drive to Holy Trinity in Salt Lake City, two hours there and back.
Who comes into the Church now? The Orthodox Studies Institute looked at converts in twenty parishes across six jurisdictions and fifteen states. Of those received since 2013, two thirds were under forty when they were received, the thirties were the most common decade, and 44 percent were single when they came.
That study is national; there is no count for Utah, and we have not made one up. What we can give is five addresses, each copied from the parish's own site on 24 September 2026.
Where the community gathers
The five places sit in three parts of the state: the Salt Lake Valley, Ogden to the north, and Carbon County to the south-east.
The Salt Lake Valley
The Salt Lake Valley holds three. Holy Trinity Cathedral downtown and Prophet Elias in Holladay are two churches of one parish, the Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake, with the Liturgy at ten in both. St Anna is further south in Sandy. The valley also has Sts Peter and Paul on South 300 East, whose website does not say which jurisdiction it belongs to, a Serbian parish on 1000 West that we found only on the map, and a Romanian mission in the Orthodox Church in America's directory with no church address; none of those has a card.
Ogden
Ogden holds one: the Transfiguration, on 42nd Street in South Ogden, about forty minutes north of downtown Salt Lake City. The same directory lists an Orthodox Church in America mission in Ogden, also without a church address.
Carbon County
Carbon County holds one: the Assumption in Price, about two hours and twenty minutes south-east of Salt Lake City, whose history begins in the coal camps.
Cathedrals and parishes worth knowing
The parish goes back to 1905 and the present cathedral to 1923; Orthros at nine and the Divine Liturgy at ten on Sunday.
279 South 300 WestSalt Lake City
UT 84101
The second church of the same Salt Lake parish, with the Sunday Liturgy at ten and a class on the faith on Thursday evenings at seven that anyone may attend.
5335 South Highland DriveHolladay
UT 84117
A parish of the Greek Metropolis of Denver whose priest welcomes those who have been reading about Orthodoxy online and asks them to get offline and come through the doors.
9201 South 1300 EastSandy
UT 84094
Vespers on Saturday at six, Orthros at nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday, a catechism class, and an annual Greek food festival.
674 42nd StreetSouth Ogden
UT 84403
Dedicated on the feast of the Assumption in 1916 by the Greeks of the Carbon County coal camps; Orthros at nine and the Liturgy at ten on Sunday.
61 South 2nd StreetPrice
UT 84501
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times, as in the text.
Holy Trinity to Prophet Elias is about twenty minutes, and to St Anna in Sandy a little more. Downtown Salt Lake City to Ogden is about forty minutes up I-15. Price is the outlier: about two hours and twenty minutes from Salt Lake City, and close to three hours from Ogden.
So most of Orthodox Utah lives along one stretch of the Wasatch Front, and a first meeting between Ogden and Sandy is an evening's drive. Price is a separate world, over the mountains.
Say early where you live and whether you would move; the cana.love form asks both, and the answers are there before anyone writes a word.
The Orthodox year in Utah
Vespers in Ogden
The Transfiguration serves it on Saturday evenings at six.
The Divine Liturgy
At ten on Sunday at Holy Trinity, Prophet Elias, the Transfiguration and the Assumption, each after Orthros at nine.
A class in Holladay
The Salt Lake parish holds its class on the faith at Prophet Elias on Thursday evenings at seven.
The Ogden festival
The Transfiguration's Greek food festival; in 2026 it fell on the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of September.
Classes in Price and Ogden
Both parishes list a catechism class for people who want to learn the faith.
The name-day in Price
The Assumption's patronal feast falls on the day its church was dedicated in 1916.
Dating across jurisdictions, and with converts
Greek parishes built by miners and railroad men, and newer communities around them whose jurisdiction is not always obvious from outside: that is Orthodox Utah. Here is how cana.love handles it.
Twelve jurisdictions on one list
Your jurisdiction is one of the form's questions, and it offers twelve answers: OCA, ROCOR, Greek, Antiochian, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Carpatho-Russian, Albanian, Catechumen and Other Canonical. The five parishes on this page are Greek, and someone in the Thursday class in Holladay can answer Catechumen.
Practice, asked outright
Beyond that, it asks how often you are at the Liturgy, whether you keep the fasts, and whether you are looking to marry. The site runs in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian, which may matter in a valley with a Serbian parish and a Romanian mission.
Checked before it appears
A profile or a photograph becomes visible only after review: software checks it first and a person decides anything it is unsure of. Asking another member for money breaks the rules the site publishes, and fraud ends in permanent removal with no warning.
Free, and no password
Joining costs nothing and stays that way; there is no subscription. You will not need a 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, as are Protestants and people still working out where they belong who want a marriage of the same kind. You control who can see you. Utah's Orthodox parishes are few and mostly Greek, so a site limited to one jurisdiction would leave many people alone. What the site promises instead can be checked: jurisdiction, practice and intention are on the form, and you can read them before you reply. It is run by Cana SpA, a company in Chile, and the About page has the details.
Meeting safely
- Make the first meeting a daytime one in a public place, with an agreed time to go home: coffee hour after the Liturgy, a café on 9th and 9th in Salt Lake City or on 25th Street in Ogden. Let a friend know where you are, and if it means the drive over to Price, when you expect to be back. Your home address can wait.
- Money needs no thought. Until you have met in person, send nothing, lend nothing and pay for no one's travel, whatever you are told. A single report is enough for us to look into it.
The community guidelines describe how reports are handled and how a decision can be appealed.
Common questions
How old is the Greek parish in Salt Lake City?
Holy Trinity was founded in 1905, and it describes itself as the oldest Greek Orthodox community between St Louis and San Francisco.
Why does one parish have two churches?
The Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake serves both Holy Trinity Cathedral downtown and Prophet Elias in Holladay, with the Sunday Liturgy at ten in each.
Is there anything outside the Salt Lake Valley?
Yes: the Transfiguration in South Ogden and the Assumption in Price.
I am new to Orthodoxy. Where can I start?
The Thursday evening class at Prophet Elias is open to anyone, and the parishes in Ogden and Price both list a catechism class.
Are there parishes that are not Greek?
Yes, but we could not check them well enough for a card: Sts Peter and Paul in Salt Lake City, a Serbian parish on 1000 West, and two missions of the Orthodox Church in America without a church address.
Can I use cana.love in Utah?
Yes, anywhere in the state, from eighteen. It is a website; there is nothing to install.
Next steps
In Salt Lake City, go to the Liturgy once at Holy Trinity and once at Prophet Elias, then try the Thursday class. In Ogden or Price, go on a Sunday and stay for the coffee hour. And if you want to know how someone lives the faith before meeting rather than after, make a free profile on cana.love, where the form asks it first.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.