The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

By sbellon

  • Joseph Smith organizes Mormon Church

  • Smith is arrested for his preaching

    Charged with being a “disorderly” person, is acquitted

  • Book of Mormon is published

  • Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery are ordained “elders”

  • Joseph Smith begins work on an inspired translation of the Bible

  • Smith leads camp of Israel from Ohio to Missouri

  • Mormons begin evangelizing in England

  • Smith begins teaching about baptisms for the dead

  • Relief Society is organized

  • Revelation on eternal marriage and plural wives was recorded

  • Joseph and Hyrum Smith are assassinated

  • The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was sustained to lead the Church.

  • Doctrine of polygamy is made public

    20,000 Mormons now live in Salt Lake City

  • The Church of LDS has 109,894 members

  • 201,047 members

  • The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was sustained to lead the Church.

  • > 1,000,000 members

  • The Church has almost 60,000 members

  • The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was sustained to lead the Church.

  • Today

    • nearly 13 mil members of the church
    • more than 150,000 members in Community of Christ