OCP is an American

United States

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 liturgical publisher based in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

. The not-for-profit

Non-profit organization

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 company publishes liturgical

Liturgy

Liturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...

 music, books, choral collections, hymnals, missals, and support materials for the Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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. OCP also publishes the Catholic Sentinel

Catholic Sentinel

The Catholic Sentinel is, according to its masthead, the "Oldest Catholic Newspaper on the West Coast." A weekly publication, it is sent out every Wednesday to subscribers and is the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland and the Diocese of Baker...

, the diocesan newspaper for the Archdiocese of Portland

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland

The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It encompasses the western part of the state of Oregon, from the summit of the Cascades to the Pacific Ocean...

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OCP represents such musical composers as Michael Joncas

Michael Joncas

Jan Michael Joncas is a priest, liturgical theologian, and composer of contemporary Catholic music. Joncas's most popular song is "On Eagles' Wings." He received an MA in liturgy from the University of Notre Dame in 1978 and went on to study at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome. He was...

, Dan Schutte

Dan Schutte

Daniel L. Schutte is an American composer of Catholic liturgical music and a contemporary Christian songwriter best known for composing the hymn Here I Am, Lord .-Biography:...

 and the St. Louis Jesuits

St. Louis Jesuits

The St. Louis Jesuits, a group of Catholic composers who popularized a contemporary style of church music through their compositions and recordings in the 1970s and 1980s. The group, made up of Jesuit seminarians at St...

, and offers worship programs that are used in two-thirds of all Catholic churches in the U.S., and in communities and ministries throughout the world.

Leadership

• Cardinal Prefect
  Prefect
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   - William Joseph Levada - As Archbishop of Portland (Oregon) from 1986 to 1995. Still serves on the Board of Directors.
• Cardinal - Francis George OMI - As Archbishop of Portland (Oregon) from 1996 to 1997.
• John George Vlazny - As Archbishop of Portland 1997 to present
• John Limb 1988 to present - Publisher