Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported 28,965 members in eleven stakes, two districts, 97 congregations, one mission, and one temple in French Polynesia. [6] [9] Five percent of the population of French Polynesia is recorded as being members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [17]
Temples are considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth. The LDS Church has 367 temples in various phases, which includes 202 dedicated temples (193 operating and 9 others undergoing renovations [ 1 ] ), 4 with a dedication scheduled , 48 under construction , 2 with groundbreakings scheduled , [ 2 ] , and 111 others ...
ɡ ɑː θ / [a]), a Nephite ship builder who according to The Book of Mormon lived in or around 55 BCE, [12] and whom some church publications have stated sailed from the Americas to Polynesia. [15] [b] Leaders of the LDS Church [22] and LDS scholars have stated that the peoples of the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii, Polynesia, and New ...
This page was last edited on 28 February 2024, at 23:54 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.
With the church reporting more than 200,000 members at year-end 2022, Canada ranks as having the 4th largest body of LDS Church members in North America and the 12th worldwide. [4] The 2021 Canadian Census survey reported approximately 0.2% of the population (about 87,725 people) identified themselves as church members.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), an area is an administrative unit that typically is composed of multiple stakes and missions. These areas are the primary church administrative unit between individual stakes or missions and the church as a whole.
In the LDS Church, a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord and considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth. Upon completion, temples are usually open to the public for a short period of time (an "open house"), and then each is dedicated as a "House of the Lord," after which only members with a ...