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Stake and ward councils are meetings of local congregations within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). A ward is a standard local congregation unit, while a stake is made up of several wards. This arrangement is roughly comparable to diocese and archdiocese in the Roman Catholic faith. These LDS Church council meetings ...
Organizational divisions within the LDS Church. Includes geographic subdivisions as well as other groupings or organizations of individuals, such as councils, quorums, etc. Subcategories
A ward is a local congregation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with a smaller local congregation known as a branch. A ward is presided over by a bishop , the equivalent of a pastor in many other Christian denominations . [ 1 ]
Elko Nevada East Stake: 31 May 1942: Nevada Reno: Salt Lake Elko Nevada West Stake: 19 Mar 1995: Nevada Reno: Salt Lake Ely Nevada Stake: 19 Sep 1926: Nevada Reno: Cedar City Utah Filer Idaho Stake [a] 15 Jun 1980: Idaho Pocatello: Twin Falls Idaho Fallon Nevada Stake: 18 Jan 1970: Nevada Reno: Reno Nevada Fallon Nevada South Stake: 30 Aug 1987 ...
According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, less than 1% of Kentuckians self-identify themselves most closely with the LDS Church. [3] Stakes are located in Crestwood, Elizabethtown, Hopkinsville, Lexington (2), Louisville, and Paducah.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement. After the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, assumed the leadership of the church and led its members westward in wagon and handcart trains across the Mississippi River, the Great Plains, and through the Rocky Mountains to the Salt Lake Valley.
The first missionaries arrived in the state in Salisbury in 1832, only two years after the church was founded by Joseph Smith. [6]In 2010, an estimated 40,000 people—over the course of its month-long open house—visited the new Hartford Connecticut Temple.
A member of the stake high council serves as the stake Sunday School president and may serve with or without counselors and/or a secretary. A similar structure exists for the stake Young Men organizations. The church announced in October 2019 that the presidency of the Young Men at the ward level was being discontinued.