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Priest (Mormonism)
Priest is a priesthood office in the Aaronic priesthood of denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Priests in the LDS Church In the LDS Church, priest is the third of four offices of the Aaronic priesthood. Male members who turn 16 in the coming year are eligible to become ordained priests in January."Ordinance and Blessing Policies", '' Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: LDS Church, 2010) § 16. An interview with and approval by the bishop is required before ordination. Prior to ordination, the proposed ordination must also be accepted by common consent by the members of the ward. With the approval of the bishop, a priest or a holder of the Melchizedek priesthood may ordain a person to the office of priest by the laying on of hands. All priests in a ward are members of a priests quorum. A priests quorum can have a maximum of 48 members. The president of the pries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
In the Latter Day Saint movement, priesthood is the power and authority of God given to man, including the authority to perform ordinance (Latter Day Saints), ordinances and to act as a leader in the church. A group of priesthood holders is referred to as a quorum (Latter Day Saints), quorum. Priesthood denotes elements of both power and authority. The priesthood includes the power Jesus gave his Twelve apostles, apostles to perform miracles such as the casting out of devils and the healing of sick (Gospel of Luke, Luke 9:1). Latter Day Saints believe that the Bible, Biblical miracles performed by prophets and apostles were performed by the power of priesthood, including the miracles of Jesus, who holds all of the keys of the priesthood. The priesthood is formally known as the "Priesthood after the Order of the Son of God", but to avoid the too frequent use of the name of deity, the priesthood is referred to as the Melchizedek priesthood (Melchizedek being the high priest to who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deacon (Latter Day Saints)
A deacon in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the offices in the Aaronic Priesthood, the lowest in the Mormon priesthood hierarchy. In the modern church, a boy who has been baptized, confirmed, and found worthy may be ordained as a deacon at the age of 11 or 12. Deacons are given various responsibilities, including distributing the sacrament to the congregation. Boys ordained as deacons belong to small priesthood quorums. Theologically based in the Doctrine and Covenants, the office of deacon developed in the early days of Mormonism, achieving its current form and structure in the early 20th century. The office of deacon also appears in other denominations within the Latter-day Saint movement. Deacons in the practice and theology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints A boy who is baptized, confirmed, and deemed worthy can be ordained as a deacon at the age of 12. Occasionally, an eleven-year-old may receive the deaconate. In such cases, ordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young People And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
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Young Men (organization)
The Young Men (often referred to as Young Men's) is a youth ministry, youth organization and Auxiliary organization (LDS Church), official program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Its purpose is to assist the church's Aaronic priesthood (LDS Church), Aaronic priesthood-aged young men in their growth and development. The organization serves young men from the year they turn 12 until they are 18. History The first official youth association of the church—the Young Gentlemen's and Young Ladies’ Relief Society—was formally organized by youth in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the advice of church founder, Joseph Smith, in March 1843. The group had held several informal meetings since late January of that year under the supervision of Apostle (Latter Day Saints), apostle Heber C. Kimball. In 1854, apostle Lorenzo Snow organized the Polysophical Society and encouraged young Latter-day Saints to join. In 1875, LDS Church President of the Church (LDS Church), p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latter Day Saint Hierarchy
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1830 Establishments In New York (state)
Year 183 ( CLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Victorinus (or, less frequently, year 936 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 183 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Births * January 26 – Lady Zhen, wife of the Cao Wei state Emperor Cao Pi (d. 221) * Hu Zong, Chinese general, official and poet of the Eastern Wu state (d. 242) * Liu Zan (Zhengming), Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 255) * Lu Xun Lu Xun ( zh, c=魯迅, p=Lǔ Xùn, ; 25 September 188119 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer. A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a no ..., Chinese general and politician of the Eastern Wu state (d. 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Church Of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
The Church of Jesus Christ is an international Christian religious denomination with origins in the Latter Day Saint (Mormon) movement that is headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, United States.Registered corporate name in the Pennsylvania corporate registry. The church is a Christian Restorationist church and accepts the as . The church considers itself the go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Of Christ
Community of Christ, known legally and from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is an American-based international church, and is the second-largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement. The church reports approximately 250,000 members in 1,100 congregations in 59 countries. The church traces its origins to Joseph Smith's establishment of the Church of Christ on April 6, 1830. His eldest son, Joseph Smith III, formally accepted leadership of the church on April 6, 1860, in the aftermath of the 1844 death of Joseph Smith. Community of Christ is a Restorationist faith expression. Still, various practices and beliefs are congruent with mainline Protestant Christianity. While it generally rejects the term ''Mormon'' to describe its members, the church abides by a number of theological distinctions unusual outside Mormonism, including but not limited to: ongoing prophetic leadership, a priesthood polity, the use of the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missionary (LDS Church)
Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—often referred to as Mormon missionaries—are volunteer representatives of the church who engage variously in Proselytism, proselytizing, church service, humanitarian aid, and community service. Missionaries of the church may be male (''Elder missionaries'') or female (''Sister missionaries'') and may serve on a full- or part-time basis, depending on the assignment. Missionaries are organized geographically into Mission (LDS Church), missions, which could be any one of the List of missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 449 missions organized worldwide. This is one of the practices that the LDS Church is well-known for. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, reporting that it had more than 74,000 full-time missionaries and 31,000 service missionaries worldwide at the end of 2024. Most full-time LDS mission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stake President
A stake is an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations in certain denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. The name "stake" derives from the Book of Isaiah: "enlarge the place of thy tent; stretch forth the curtains of thine habitation; spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes" (Isaiah 54:2). A stake is sometimes referred to as a stake of Zion. History The first Latter Day Saint stake was organized at church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio, on February 17, 1834, with the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, as its president. The second stake was organized further west in Clay County, Missouri, later that year on July 3, 1834, with David Whitmer as president. The Missouri stake was then relocated in 1836 to Far West, Missouri, and the Kirtland Stake in northern Ohio was dissolved in 1838. Another stake was subsequently organized at Adam-ondi-Ahman in 1838 and abandoned later that year due to the events of the Mormon War of 1838 in Missouri. In 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elder (Latter Day Saints)
Elder is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood of denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). LDS Church Office of the Melchizedek Priesthood In the LDS Church, "elder" is considered the introductory—or lowest—of five offices of the Melchizedek priesthood. Every person who receives the Melchizedek priesthood is simultaneously ordained to the office of elder; this may be done to male members who are at least 18 years old. In order to be ordained, the member must be determined to be worthy by his local bishop and stake president."Ordinance and Blessing Policies", '' Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: LDS Church, 2010) § 16. The consent of the priesthood holders of the stake is also required before the ordination is performed, and this is usually done at a semiannual stake conference or an annual general stake priesthood meeting. Ordination is accomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
