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The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints Membership Statistics
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) releases membership, congregational, and related information on a regular basis. The latest membership information the church releases includes a count of membership, stakes, wards, branches, missions, temples, and FamilySearch Centers for the worldwide church and for individual countries and territories where the church is recognized. The latest information released was as of December 31, 2024. At the end of 2024, the LDS Church had 31,676 congregations and a reported membership of 17,509,781. Membership defined The LDS Church defines membership as a count of living individuals who: # have been baptized and confirmed. # are under age nine and have been blessed but not baptized. # are not accountable because of intellectual disabilities, regardless of age. # are unblessed children under age eight when: #* two member parents request it; or #* one member parent requests it and the nonmember parent gives permission. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missionary Training Center
Missionary Training Centers (MTC) are centers devoted to training missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The flagship MTC is located in Provo, Utah, adjacent to the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned and operated by the church. At the beginning of their service, missionaries usually spend 3 to 9 weeks at an MTC where they receive training in doctrine, conduct, proselyting methods, and, when required, a new language. As of July 2023, in addition to Provo, there are 9 MTCs throughout the world, in Brazil, England, Ghana, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, and South Africa. Missionaries serve in 150 countries teaching in 60 different languages around the world. New missionaries assigned to the Provo MTC arrive Monday–Wednesday (couple missionaries on Monday, international arrivals on Tuesday, U.S. and Canada on Wednesday), at which point they begin using their titles of " Elder" (men) and "Siste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District (LDS Church)
A district of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a geographical administrative unit composed of a number of congregations called branches. A district is a subdivision of a mission of the church and in many ways is analogous to a stake of the church. '' Church News'', 2021. Retrieved on 3 April 2021. The leader of a district is the mission president, who selects a local district president as his agent. The district president may choose two men to assist him; the three together form the district presidency. The three members of the district presidency are given the |
Religious Demographics
The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, though this is not a uniform practice. This theory began in the 18th century with the goal of recognizing the relative degrees of civility in different societies, but this concept of a ranking order has since fallen into disrepute in many contemporary cultures. Religious demographics One way to define a major religion is by the number of current adherents. The population numbers by religion are computed by a combination of census reports and population surveys, in countries where religion data is not collected in census, for example the United States or France. Results can vary widely depending on the way questions are phrased, the definitions of religion used and the bias of the agencies or organizations conducting the survey. Informal or unorganized religions are especially difficult to count. There is no consensus among researchers as to the best methodology f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormonism
Mormonism is the theology and religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationism, Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 1830s. As a label, Mormonism has been applied to various aspects of the Latter Day Saint movement, although since 2018 there has been a push from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to distance itself from this label. One historian, Sydney E. Ahlstrom, wrote in 1982 that, depending on the context, the term Mormonism could refer to "a sect, a mystery cult, a new religion, a church, a people, a nation, or an American subculture; indeed, at different times and places it is all of these." A prominent feature of Mormon theology is the Book of Mormon, a 19th-century text which describes itself as a chronicle of early Indigenous peoples of the Americas and their dealings with God in Mormonism, God. Mormon theology includes mainstream Christian beliefs with modifications s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormons
Mormons are a Religious denomination, religious and ethnocultural group, cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several groups following different leaders; the majority followed Brigham Young, while smaller groups followed Joseph Smith III, Sidney Rigdon, and James Strang. Most of these smaller groups eventually merged into the Community of Christ, and the term ''Mormon'' typically refers to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), as today, this branch is far larger than all the others combined. People who identify as Mormons may also be independently religious, secular, and non-practicing or belong to List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement, other denominations. Since 2018, the LDS Church has ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Membership Statistics Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (Canada)
In the 2021 Canadian census the number of persons who self-identified with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was 85,315 down from 105,365 in 2011. The following tables and graphs use general population data taken froStatistics Canadausing the first quarter 2020 population estimates. The official membership statistics as of Jan 1, 2020 provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) was used for all other data. Table See also * The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada * LDS membership statistics (World) * LDS membership statistics (United States) References {{DEFAULTSORT:The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Membership Statistics (Canada) Membership statistics Membership statistics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Membership Statistics Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (United States)
This page shows the membership statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) within the United States. * Official LDS Membership - Membership count on record provided by the LDS Church. These records include adults and children, and also include both active and less active members. * From religious surveys - General religious surveys conducted within the United States. These surveyed U.S. adults about their religious beliefs. Membership defined Membership reported by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on December 31, 2024, was used to determine the number of members in each state. The church defines membership as: * "Those who have been baptized and confirmed." * "Those under age nine who have been blessed but not baptized." * "Those who are not accountable because of intellectual disabilities, regardless of age." * "Unblessed children under 8 when both of the following apply: ** "At least one parent or one grandparent is a member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Membership History Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
The self-reported membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as of December 31, 2023, was 17,255,394. Membership defined The LDS Church defines membership as: Growth and demographic history The records of the LDS Church show membership growth every decade since Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints), its beginning in the 1830s, although that has slowed significantly. Following initial growth rates that averaged 10% to 25% per year in the 1830s through 1850s, it grew at about 4% per year through the last four decades of the 19th century. After a steady slowing of growth in the first four decades of the 20th century to a rate of about 2% per year in the 1930s (the Great Depression years), growth Post-World War II baby boom, boomed to an average of 6% per year for the decade around 1960, staying around 4% to 5% through 1990. After 1990, average annual growth again slowed steadily to a rate around 2.2% for the ten years ending 2015, approximately dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LDS Worldwide Congregations
LDS may refer to: Organizations Religion * Latter Day Saint movement (LDS movement), a collection of independent church groups **The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest group within the Latter Day Saint movement * Latvijas Dievturu Sadraudze, a Latvian neopagan organization Politics * Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, a political party in Slovenia * Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia, 1989), a defunct political party in Serbia * Linyon Demokratik Seselwa, a political party in Seychelles Other * LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, US Science, technology and engineering * Laser direct structuring, a manufacturing method * LDS fluid, a Citroën hydraulic fluid * LDS (automobile), South African racing cars * Leak detection system, for fluids * Lipodermatosclerosis, a skin and connective tissue disease, affecting the lower extremities * Lymphedema–distichiasis syndrome, a genetic disorder of eyelashes and lymphatic system * Loeys–Dietz syndrome, a genetic diso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FamilySearch Center
FamilySearch Centers (FSC), formerly Family History Centers (FHC), are branches of the FamilySearch Library (FSL) in Salt Lake City, Utah, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The centers supply resources for research and study of genealogy and family history. As of 2024, there are more than 6,316 FSC in 149 countries. History The Salt Lake City Genealogical Library was founded in 1894 to gather genealogical records and assist members of the LDS Church with their family history and genealogical research. It is the largest library of its kind in the world. It is open to the general public at no charge. The FSL is visited by an estimated 1,900 or more individual patrons each day. By 1975, there were 17 "branch libraries" around the world. The library collection has 2.4 million rolls of FSL microfilmed genealogical records and more than 742,000 microfiches in the main system. In 2003, the collection increased monthly by an average of 4,100 rolls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
