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A stake, the next highest level of organization, may be created if there are at least five ward-sized branches in adjacent areas. Once the stake has been organized, the ward-sized branches are organized into wards. Beginning in 2024, the LDS Church unified standards worldwide for creation of wards as shown in table below.
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.
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.
At the April 1995 general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), church president Gordon B. Hinckley announced the creation of a new leadership position known as the area authority. [1] In 1997, area authorities were renamed area authority seventies and ordained to the office of seventy.
It was later named the "Church of the Latter Day Saints". It was renamed the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" in 1838 (stylized as the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" in the United Kingdom), [6] which remained its official name until Smith's death in 1844. This organization subsequently splintered into several ...
Seattle North Stake meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Meetinghouse in Auburn. List of LDS Church adherents in each county as of 2010 according to the Association of Religion Data Archives: [7] Note: Each county adherent count reflects meetinghouse location of congregation and not by location of residence.
This is a List of Mormon place names, meaning towns and other places named, in modern times, after places and people in the Book of Mormon, after Mormon leaders during the settlement of Utah, or after other elements of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' history. See List of Book of Mormon places for a reference list of locations ...
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.