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Is there a Byzantine Rite Parish in Richmond Va? I can't seem to locate one. Hard to believe there isn't one around.

Also, I will be going to Florida<hopefully> sometime in May and will be in either Hudson or Springhill for a few days. If I could find a Byzantine Parish near by that would be nice

Converted Viking

Try phone number 804 272-3844
1307 Lakeside Avenue
Richmond, VA 23220

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Kudos to you for your fine and tedious work!

This may be a distant but certainly related goal. Let me put it forth for your consideration.

Wouldn't it be great to have a GIS map with all the churches, missions, monasteries on it? In other words, all one would need to do would be to click on the part of the map one was interested in, and immediately connect to the location, website, contact information needed. I know that there must be some college students learning GIS mapping skills who could put that together, once the baseline information was compiled. (It would probably need to be in an Excel spreadsheet, though perhaps other formats would work as well.)

Ideally, as each church/eparchy changed their own website info, automatically the central GIS map would be updated as well.....
Call me a dreamer, but, well, its a goal certainly worth consideration! FYI. A student

Student,

It is an interesting idea, although I have to acknowledge being only marginally a fan of sites that use maps as their front-line search methodology. Clustering of institutions (especially at the size/resolution of the typical on-line map) frequently makes it difficult to pinpoint with any certainty the particular church that one seeks - or even the municipality of interest in the case of the myriad villages and hamlets that are home to Eastern Catholic temples in areas such as the Rust and Coal Belts.

The Orthodoxy in America Church Locator [orthodoxyinamerica.com] is significantly better than average at what it offers and how. The Ruthenian Eparchy of Parma, OTOH, has a map on its site that aggravates me to no end.

Honestly, what I'd most welcome is a mass volunteer effort to create parish websites. Even relatively static sites, with little more than the schedule of Divine Services and contact info would be an improvement over no site or the pathetic excuses for such that are so common in Parma's parishes (and I don't mean to single out Parma, just that I've very recently had occasion to peruse them.)

Many years,

Neil