The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian restorationist Christian denomination and the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement. Founded during the Second Great Awakening, the church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has established congregations and built temples worldwide. According to the church, as of 2024, it has over 17.5 million members, of which over 6.8 million live in the U.S. The church also reports over 109,000 volunteer missionaries and over 200 dedicated temples. Church theology is restorationist and nontrinitarian; the church is a Christian denomination and includes a belief in the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ and his substitutionary atonement on behalf of mankind. It is often included in the lists of larger Christian denominations, though most Catholics, Orthodox Christians and evangelicals, and some Mainline Protestants have considered the LDS Church to be distinct and separate from mainstream Christianity. The church has an open canon of four scriptural texts: the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants (D&C), and the Pearl of Great Price. Other than the Bible, the majority of the church canon consists of material believed by the church's members to have been revealed by God to Joseph Smith, including texts described as lost parts of the Bible, and other works believed to have been written by ancient prophets, including the Book of Mormon. Members adhere to church laws of sexual purity, health, fasting, and Sabbath observance, and contribute ten percent of their income to the church in tithing. The church teaches ordinances through which adherents make covenants with God, including baptism, endowment, and celestial marriage. The church was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, originally as the Church of Christ in western New York. Under Smith's leadership, the church's headquarters moved successively to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. After his death in 1844 and the resultant succession crisis, the majority of his followers sided with Brigham Young, who led the church to its current headquarters in Salt Lake City. Young and his successors continued the church's growth, first throughout the Intermountain West, and later as a national and international organization. The church has been criticized throughout its history; modern criticism includes disputes over the church's historical claims, treatment of minorities, and finances. The church's practice of polygamy was controversial until it was curtailed in 1890 and officially rescinded in 1904. Members of the church, known as Latter-day Saints or informally as Mormons, believe that the church president is a modern-day "prophet, seer, and revelator" and that Jesus Christ, under the direction of God the Father, leads the church by revealing his will and delegating his priesthood authority to its president. The president heads a hierarchical structure descending from areas to stakes and wards. At the local and regional levels, the church has a volunteer clergy, and wards are led by bishops. Male members may be ordained to the priesthood, provided they are living by the standards of the church. Women are not ordained to the priesthood but occupy leadership roles in some church organizations. The church maintains a large missionary program that proselytizes and conducts humanitarian services worldwide; both men and women may serve as missionaries. The church also funds and participates in humanitarian projects which are independent of its missionary efforts.
Infobox
Classification
Restorationist
Orientation
Latter Day Saint movement
Scripture
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Theology
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Polity
Hierarchical
President[b]
Dallin H. Oaks
Region
Worldwide
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Founder
Joseph Smith
Origin
April 6, 1830; 195 years ago (April 6, 1830) (as Church of Christ) Fayette, New York, U.S.
Separations
LDS denominations
Congregations
31,676 (2024)
Members
17,509,781 (2024)
Missionaries
109,439 (2024)[c]
Aid organization
Philanthropies
Tertiary institutions
4
Other names
LDS ChurchMormon ChurchChurch of Jesus Christ
Official website
churchofjesuschrist.org
Tables
· Demographics
Married
Married
Pew 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study
Married
LDS (U.S.)
66%
U.S. Avg.
49%
Divorced or separated
Divorced or separated
Pew 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study
Divorced or separated
LDS (U.S.)
7%
U.S. Avg.
11%
Have children under 18
Have children under 18
Pew 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study
Have children under 18
LDS (U.S.)
41%
U.S. Avg.
31%
Attendance at religious services (weekly or more)
Attendance at religious services (weekly or more)
Pew 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study
Attendance at religious services (weekly or more)
LDS (U.S.)
77%
U.S. Avg.
40%
| Pew 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study | LDS (U.S.) | Avg. |
| Married | 66% | 49% |
| Divorced or separated | 7% | 11% |
| Have children under 18 | 41% | 31% |
| Attendance at religious services (weekly or more) | 77% | 40% |
· Demographics
White
White
Pew Research Center 2014 Survey: Ethnicity
White
LDS (U.S.)
85%
U.S. (2020)
62%
Black
Black
Pew Research Center 2014 Survey: Ethnicity
Black
LDS (U.S.)
1%
U.S. (2020)
12%
Latino
Latino
Pew Research Center 2014 Survey: Ethnicity
Latino
LDS (U.S.)
8%
U.S. (2020)
12%
Asian
Asian
Pew Research Center 2014 Survey: Ethnicity
Asian
LDS (U.S.)
1%
U.S. (2020)
6%
Other/Multiracial
Other/Multiracial
Pew Research Center 2014 Survey: Ethnicity
Other/Multiracial
LDS (U.S.)
5%
U.S. (2020)
21%
| Pew Research Center 2014 Survey: Ethnicity | LDS (U.S.) | U.S. (2020) |
| White | 85% | 62% |
| Black | 1% | 12% |
| Latino | 8% | 12% |
| Asian | 1% | 6% |
| Other/Multiracial | 5% | 21% |
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- Also known informally as Mormonism
- The church president is often referred to as "the Prophet".
- Missionaries are divided into three subgroups: 74,127 Full-time teaching missionaries, 31,120 Senior service missionarie
- Scholars and eyewitnesses disagree whether the church was organized in Manchester, New York at the Smith log home, or in
- In 1834, Smith designated Kirtland as one of the "stakes" of Zion, referring to the tent–stakes metaphor of Isaiah.
- Smith said in 1831 that God intended the Mormons to "retain a strong hold in the land of Kirtland, for the space of five
- Brodie stated that the brutality of the Jackson Countians aroused sympathy for the Mormons and was almost universally de
- By summer of 1835, there were 1500 to 2000 Saints in Kirtland, and from 1831 to 1838, church membership grew from 680 to
- Smith referred to the Far West church as the "church in Zion". His statement calling Far West "Zion" had the effect of "
- Boggs' executive order stated that the Mormon community had "made war upon the people of this State" and that "the Mormo
- The second anointing ordinance provides a guarantee that recipients will be exalted. Authors have stated that Smith's wo
- Bushman described the Council of Fifty noting that Smith prophesied "the entire overthrow of this nation in a few years"
- In this account, the personages in question are inferred—though never expressly stated—to be God the Father and his Son,
- However, the Catholic Church considers doctrinal differences between the two groups to be so great that it will not acce
- Examples include the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, U.S. Presbyterian Church, US Evangelical Lutheran Church,
- According to Joseph Smith, Jesus told him that the other churches claiming to be Christian creeds "were an abomination i
- A man may be sealed to more than one wife if his previous wives are either dead or legally divorced from him; a living w
- Children born to biological parents who have been sealed to each other are considered "born in the covenant" and need no
- Joseph Smith–Matthew and the Book of Moses, containing translations and revelatory expansions of Matthew 24 and Genesis
- The initial legislation was made by the non-existent State of Deseret, thus was not legally valid, but was soon ratified
- During the Church's October 2018 General Conference, Nelson declared that the use of nicknames such as Mormon represente
- The only paid positions in the Church are general authorities, general officers and mission presidents.
- For a time, the church had a paid local clergy (e.g. stake presidents, bishops, patriarchs). However, that practice was
- Leaders state women should only have a maximum of one piercing in each ear, and men should not have any.
- Subtracting U.S. membership of 6,681,829 from total worldwide membership of 16,313,735, results in 9,631,906 members out
- Reporting on a presentation given by the church's chief information officer, a Deseret News article indicated that one o
- Standard language references such as Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, eds., The World's Writing Systems (New York: O
- Examples of public pressure include: In 1963, Hugh B. Brown made a statement on civil rights during the year's General C
- Prior to 2006, the introduction to church-published editions of the Book of Mormon stated Lamanites form the "principal
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