Oregon Catholic Press
| Founded | 1922 |
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| Founder | Archbishop Alexander Christie |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Portland, Oregon |
| Publication types | Music, books, newspapers |
| Imprints | OCP, New Dawn Music, Spirit & Song, Trinitas, Catholic Sentinel, and El Centinela |
| No. of employees | 150+ |
| Official website | www |
OCP (also known as Oregon Catholic Press, and originally the Catholic Truth Society of Oregon) is a major publisher of Catholic liturgical music based in Portland, Oregon. The not-for-profit company publishes liturgical music, books, choral collections, hymnals, missals, and support materials for the Catholic Church in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese. OCP also publishes the Catholic Sentinel, the diocesan newspaper for the Archdiocese of Portland.
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OCP represents such well known musical composers as Dan Schutte, and the others, like the members of the St. Louis Jesuits (including Dan Schutte),
Carey Landry, Ken Canedo and Tom KendziaOCP.also represents some more contemporary artists like Sarah Hart, Steve Angristano, and Curtis Stephan through its Spirit & Song contemporary division. Along with GIA Publications, OCP is a co ownerf f OneLicense.net, having merged LicenSingOnline.org with OneLicense.net in January 1, 2017.
Many of OCP's composers were originally composers for North American Liturgy Resources.
OCP is seen as an extremely large player in the liturgical music industry. Its materials are used by over 70% of Catholic parishes in the United States.
Oregon Catholic Press produces missalettes and hymnals for the Catholic Church in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. It publishes:
Missals (subscription based)
Breaking Bread, an annual missal, available with or without weekly readings
Today's Missal, a seasonal missal printed 3 times a year, with music in a separate Music Issue
Heritage Missal, an annual missal, with a repertoire leaning towards traditional hymns, Latin & chant.
Misal de Dia,, the Spanish language equivalent to the English seasonal missal Today's Missal.
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