Every canonical Orthodox parish, mission and monastery in the United States, drawn over where people actually live. Hover a county for its numbers, click a pin for the church, and use the rankings below to find the places with the most and fewest communities for their population.
Counting parishes per county ignores how many people live there. These rankings divide population by the number of parishes and missions, and measure the distance from where people live to the nearest one. Click a row to find it on the map.
Sources. Parish and mission locations from the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops directory, cross-checked against each jurisdiction's own directory to identify missions. Population from the US Census Bureau's 2024 estimates, with 2020 county centers of population. Counties use the 2024 boundaries, so Connecticut appears as its nine planning regions. Built 2026-11-13.
How to read it. "Communities" means parishes plus missions; monasteries are shown but not counted, since most aren't parishes. Distances are straight-line miles from a county's center of population, not driving distance. Every counted parish, mission and monastery is listed in at least one official canonical source: the Assembly of Bishops directory or the jurisdiction's own directory. Click a pin to see which. The grey "unverified finds" are off by default. They are churches on OpenStreetMap that no official directory lists, with known non-canonical bodies, Oriental Orthodox churches and mis-tagged churches removed. Some are real; some are closed or not in communion. They never count toward any number here. Puerto Rico isn't shown.