Getting started
From first email to your parish on the app
Setup
- Contact us with your parish’s name, city and jurisdiction, and who will run it.Contact form
- Create an account in the app or on the admin site, with the email you want to use. An admin is added by exact email, so the account has to exist first.App or admin site
- We create your parish and make you its admin. You can add other admins yourself.Us
- Fill in the parish profile: address, jurisdiction, diocese, contact details, old or new calendar, time zone, clergy and staff, and social links.Admin site
- Set up the calendar: create your calendars, subscribe to the shared ones, and add services and events, with repeats.Admin site
- Arrange the home page and tab-bar links in the App tab, watching the phone preview.Admin site
- Create the parish’s first groups.App
Every parish appears in the app’s search. If yours should not, ask us to leave it out.
Pointing your parish to the app
- Download Orthodox Parish Life.
- Create an account with an email address, Google, or Apple on iPhone.
- Search for the parish by name, city or priest, and ask to join.
- You approve the request on the admin site or in the app, and the app opens onto the parish.
The app is on its way to the App Store and Google Play.
Telling your parish
Bulletin blurb
[Parish name] is now on Orthodox Parish Life. Download the app, search for [parish name], and ask to join to see services, events and parish groups.
Spoken announcement
Our parish now has its own place in the Orthodox Parish Life app. In it you will find our services and events, the day’s feast, fast and readings, and our parish groups. Download Orthodox Parish Life on your phone, search for [parish name], and ask to join. Once your request is approved, the parish opens in the app. If you would like help setting it up, ask one of us after the Liturgy.
When to announce
Once setup is done, so the first people to join find events and groups waiting. Approve requests promptly in the first week.