Mormonism in the 20th century

This is a timeline of major events in Mormonism in the 20th century.

1900s

1900

  • January 25: The U.S. Congress votes to not admit B. H. Roberts, who had been denied a seat since being elected in 1898, because of his practice of polygamy.[1]
  • April 19: Reed Smoot is ordained an apostle.

1901

Joseph F. Smith became LDS Church president.
  • April 10: The Daughters of Utah Pioneers organization is founded.
  • September 1: Japan is dedicated by Heber J. Grant for missionary proselyting.[2]
  • October 10: Lorenzo Snow dies.
  • October 17: Joseph F. Smith becomes the sixth president of the LDS Church.

1902

  • January: The first issue of The Children's Friend is published, a magazine for LDS primary children.[3]
  • August 4: The Bureau of Information opens on Temple Square, the first visitors' center of the LDS Church.[4][5]
  • September 20: The first volume of the History of the Church is published, edited by B. H. Roberts and covering Joseph Smith's life from 1805 to 1833.[6][7]
  • October: A new edition of the Pearl of Great Price is approved, as prepared by James E. Talmage, who introduced chapters and verses and removed material duplicated in the Doctrine and Covenants.[8]

1903

Brigham Young Academy building
  • January: Reed Smoot, an apostle, is elected by the state legislature to the 58th congress as a U.S. Senator. Controversy over his election arises immediately.
  • February: Despite allegations and controversy, Reed Smoot is allowed to be seated in the Senate.
  • March: Reed Smoot takes the senatorial oath and formally becomes a member of the senate.
  • October 15: Brigham Young Academy becomes Brigham Young University.[9]
  • November 5: The LDS Church acquires Carthage Jail, to be used as a historic site.[3][10]
  • Samoan edition of the Book of Mormon.

1904

LDS Church president Joseph F. Smith testified before congress at the Reed Smoot Hearings.
  • January – Reed Smoot submits carefully prepared rebuttals to allegations against him and his church.
  • March – The Reed Smoot Hearings begin, evaluating whether Reed Smoot should be allowed to be a senator.
  • April 6 – Joseph F. Smith issues the "Second Manifesto", which reinforces the 1890 Manifesto and prescribes excommunication for those who continued to practice plural marriage.
  • April 14 - The LDS Church purchases 25 acres in Independence, Missouri, originally part of the 63-acre Temple Lot from 1831. Church leaders intended this to be the site for a temple in Zion, fulfilling a prophecy of Joseph Smith.[10]

1905

1906

  • Summer: Joseph F. Smith visits Europe, the first President of the Church to do so.[3]
  • The first Sunday School classes for adults are held.[3]
  • Turkish edition of Book of Mormon; first in an Asian language.

1907

Reed Smoot remained a senator for 30 years.
  • January 10: The LDS Church becomes debt-free.[3]
  • February 20: After more than two years of hearings, the Smoot Hearings are resolved by a vote. The republican majority overturns objections to his seating. Reed Smoot serves another 26 years.
  • June: The Smith Family Farm is acquired for the LDS Church.[3]
  • December 7: Charles W. Nibley becomes the Presiding Bishop and brings financial reforms, including tithing payments only in cash, no longer taking donations in kind.[3]
  • December 14: Converts in Europe are advised to remain in their home countries instead of gathering to Utah.[11]
  • Zion's Printing and Publishing Company is started at Independence, Missouri by the LDS Church.[3]

1908

  • April 8: The General Priesthood Committee is created.[3]
  • October: A financial auditing report is presented at General Conference for the first time.[12]

1909

  • November: The First Presidency issues an official statement regarding questions concerning the Creation of the earth and the theories of evolution and the origin of man.
  • LDS Church purchased property in Far West, Missouri, including the former temple lot.[3]
  • LDS priesthood meetings begin to be held weekly.[3]
  • Japanese translation of Book of Mormon, the first in an east Asian language.

1910s

1910

1911

John W. Taylor was excommunicated for violating the Second Manifesto.
Publicity for A Victim of the Mormons, which ushered in a number of sensationalist anti-Mormon films.
  • February 10: Three popular BYU professors appear before church leaders for teaching evolution.[13] After becoming a public controversy, the professors resign later that year. Historian Leonard Arrington called this Mormonism's "first brush with modernism".[14]
  • March 28: John W. Taylor is excommunicated for performing a plural marriage despite the Second Manifesto issued by church president Joseph F. Smith. With this excommunication, the practice of new polygamous marriages is believed to be finally abolished. Polygamists who were married prior to 1905 continue to remain in good standing with the LDS Church including, but not limited to, the church's president, Joseph F. Smith.
  • April 15: Theodore Roosevelt publishes an article in Collier's magazine defending the Mormons, in response to an ongoing anti-Mormon campaign in national magazines.[15][16]
  • April–May: Mexican Revolution. The Battle of Ciudad Juárez brings war to the doorstep of the Mormon Colonies in Mexico in the Casas Grandes valley.
  • June 9: The Hotel Utah opens across from Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
  • August: James E. Talmage denounces the Michigan relics as fakes.
  • September 16: A photographer threatens to publicly display unauthorized photographs of the interior of the Salt Lake Temple unless the church pays $100,000. Instead president Joseph F. Smith arranges the church to publish a book containing its own such photos.
  • October: A Victim of the Mormons (Danish: Mormonens Offer) a Danish silent film directed by August Blom is released. The film was controversial for demonizing the Mormon religion, and its box-office success is cited for initiating a decade of anti-Mormon propaganda films in America.
  • October 26: Stake missionaries are first called, in the Granite Utah Stake.[3]
  • November 29: The M.I.A. Scouts are created as the first official LDS organization of the Boy Scouts of America.[17]

1912

1913

MIA Scouts in front of the Church Administration Building.

1915

  • January: Relief Society Magazine begins publication for LDS women.[18]
  • April 27: Home Evening program is introduced, calling for families to study the gospel together at home.[11]
  • September: Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage is published.[3] It remains popular to this day.

1916

  • June 30: "The Father and the Son", an official declaration from the First Presidency, discusses the identities of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.[3]

1917

1918

Heber J. Grant became LDS Church president.
  • May 16: Arrangements are announced for the Relief Society to sell its wheat storage of over 200,000 bushels to the U.S. government, to cover military food shortages near the end of World War I.[19]
  • October 4: Joseph F. Smith announces at General Conference his revelation about the ministry to those in the afterlife, now known as Section 138 of the Doctrine and Covenants.
  • October 31: The Quorum of the Twelve and the Patriarch of the Church unanimously accept Smith's revelation as official church canon.
  • November 19: Joseph F. Smith passes away.
  • November 23: Heber J. Grant becomes the seventh president of the LDS Church.

1919

1920s

1920

  • December 2: Apostle David O. McKay and Hugh J. Cannon, editor of the Improvement Era, are set apart for a year-long tour of LDS missions and schools across the world.[21] As the most widely traveled general authority,[22] McKay retains a vision for worldwide church growth.[23]
  • The LDS Church closes its system of academies.[3]

1921

  • Lectures on Faith removed from Standard Works.
  • New programs for young adults are created, called M-Men and Gleaners.[3]
  • Joseph Fielding Smith's Essentials in Church History is published, an influential book of devotional LDS history that remained in print for more than 50 years.[24]

1922

1923

1924

  • January: Lorin C. Woolley is excommunicated from the LDS Church for alleging that church president Heber J. Grant and apostle James E. Talmage had taken plural wives in the "recent past". He claimed to have learned this while spying on LDS Church leaders for the United States Secret Service. Grant publicly denied these claims in general conference in April 1931.[26] Wooly later founded the polygamous Mormon fundamentalism movement.
  • April: A microphone is first used in General Conference, allowing overflow attendees to hear the proceedings in another building on Temple Square.[12]
  • October 3: The first General Conference radio broadcast.[25][27]

1925

  • July 18: In the wake of the Scopes Trial, the First Presidency issues an official statement, an edited version of the 1909 statement, regarding questions about the Creation of the earth, the theory of evolution, and the origin of man.[28][29]
  • February 3: The Salt Lake Mission Home is dedicated, for use in training of LDS missionaries before they depart for their assignments.[11]
  • April 21: The LDS Church buys a controlling interest in a Salt Lake City radio station, which it changes from KZN to KSL and still maintains today.[30]
  • December 25: South America is dedicated for missionary proselyting, by LDS Apostle Melvin J. Ballard in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[11]

1926

Arizona Temple

1927

  • October 23: The Arizona Temple is dedicated.
  • Good Neighbor Policy adopted. The reforms were primarily intended to remove from church literature, sermons, and ceremonies any explicit or implicit suggestion that Latter-day Saints should seek vengeance on the citizens or government of the United States for past persecutions of the church and its members, and in particular for the death of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum.

1928

  • The 100th stake of the LDS Church is organized, in Lehi, Utah.[3]
  • The LDS adult Sunday School class is named Gospel Doctrine.[3]

1929

1930s

Stage of the pageant on the Hill Cumorah

1930

1931

1932

  • April 2: A new emphasis is placed on Word of Wisdom observance, especially in tobacco abstinence.[3]

1933

1935

1936

1937

  • January: Ages for office-holders in the Aaronic priesthood are defined as 12 for deacons, 15 for teachers, and 17 for priests. This would be revised in 1954.[3]
  • February 20: Part of the Nauvoo Temple lot is acquired for the LDS Church.[3]
  • July: LDS Church pageant in Palmyra, New York is moved to the Hill Cumorah, where it is still performed today.[3]
  • The first Missionary Handbook is published.[3]
  • J. Reuben Clark calls for LDS Church members to begin to store a year's supply of food and supplies.[3]
  • The Martin Harris Farm is acquired for the LDS Church in Palmyra, New York.[33]

1938

  • August 8: J. Reuben Clark calls for church educators to focus on building students' faith in his speech "The Charted Course of the Church in Education", which became a classic text influencing the mission of CES.[34]
  • August 14: Deseret Industries is started.[3]
  • November: The Genealogical Society of Utah (now called FamilySearch) begins to microfilm records of genealogical data.[3] This grew into a massive collection from around the world, which is being digitized today.
  • Local church education boards are replaced by the new General Church Board of Education.[3]

1939

1940s

Richard R. Lyman, the most recent apostle of the LDS Church to have been excommunicated.

1940

  • September 27: Theatrical release of Brigham Young, a Hollywood biopic, featuring Dean Jagger as Brigham Young, and Vincent Price as Joseph Smith. Though the film is commercially unsuccessful, it brings Mormon history to a wider international audience.
  • October 14: All LDS missionaries in the Pacific islands are called home, due to rising tensions in the buildup to the Pacific War in World War II.[11]

1941

1942

  • April: Because of war-time travel restrictions, General Conference was limited to certain priesthood leaders in the Assembly Hall, and not the general public.[12][20]
  • May: The Improvement Era begins devoting an issue for each General Conference, publishing all the talks.[20]
  • October: The LDS Servicemen's Committee is created, headed by Apostle Harold B. Lee.[3]
  • October: Helmuth Hübener, a German Latter-day Saint is the youngest opponent of the Third Reich to be sentenced to death by the infamous Special People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) and executed.[35]
  • The first time an evening meeting of General Conference is held.[12]

1943

  • LDS Church apostle Richard R. Lyman was discovered to be cohabitating with a woman other than his legal wife, in a relationship that he defined as a polygamous marriage. Lyman was excommunicated on November 12, 1943 at age 73, on grounds of a violation of the law of chastity, which any practice of post-Second Manifesto polygamy constituted. He was later rebaptized and died in the church. He is the most recent apostle to be excommunicated.
  • 1943 October 7: Spencer W. Kimball and Ezra Taft Benson are ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

1944

1945

  • April 12: Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs at funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • May 14: Heber J. Grant, the last LDS Church president to have practiced polygamy, dies.
  • May 21: George Albert Smith becomes the eighth president of the church.
  • September: Following the Japanese surrender, ending World War II, new mission presidents are called to reopen missions that were closed during the war.[3]
  • September 23: The Idaho Falls Temple is dedicated.
  • October: The priesthood session of General Conference is held for the first time.[12]
  • November 3: New LDS Church president George Albert Smith and U.S. president Harry S Truman meet and discuss sending humanitarian supplies to war-torn Europe.[3]
  • The publication of No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, by Fawn Brodie. Brodie's most notable Mormon critic, Brigham Young University professor Hugh Nibley, published a scathing 62-page pamphlet entitled No, Ma'am, That's Not History, asserting that Brodie had cited sources supportive only of her conclusions while conveniently ignoring others. Brodie considered Nibley's pamphlet to be "a well-written, clever piece of Mormon propaganda" but dismissed it as "a flippant and shallow piece". Brodie's book becomes a best seller, and has not got out of print yet.
  • Raid on the Short Creek Community, prefiguring that of 1953.[citation needed]

1946

  • January: The LDS Church begins sending humanitarian supplies to war-torn nations in Europe, following World War II.[3]
  • February 4: Ezra Taft Benson embarks on a tour of Europe following World War II, to oversee the state of the church and reorganize missionary work.[3]
  • May: Fawn Brodie is excommunicated.
  • May 22: Western Bad Bascomb released, about an outlaw who joins a Mormon wagon train.
  • May 26: A rift in the LDS Church in Mexico is mended, as 1,200 members of the Third Convention return into fellowship at a large conference in Mexico City attended by George Albert Smith, the first church president to visit the country.[36][37]
  • Tongan edition of Book of Mormon.

1947

1948

  • George Albert Smith is said to have petitioned the Lord to lift the ban on blacks receiving the priesthood. He claims he is denied. The ban was not lifted until 1978.

1949

  • October: The first public broadcast of General Conference on television.[3] Conference talks are given time limits for the first time, to fit with broadcast station timetables.[12]

1950s

1950

1951

1952

1953

The schoolhouse where the Short Creek raid took place.

1954

Leroy S. Johnson's fundamentalist Mormon followers would become the FLDS Church.

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

  • BYU Studies, a journal for LDS scholars, commences publication.

1960s

Entrance to The Polynesian Cultural Center.

1960

1961

1962

  • March: The age entrance requirement for male LDS missionaries is lowered from 20 to 19 years old.[3]
  • April 23: George Q. Morris dies.
  • July 23: The first satellite broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.[3]
  • July 27: Nauvoo Restoration, Inc. is created, to preserve and renovate Mormon historical sites in Nauvoo, Illinois.[3]
  • October 10: The LDS Church acquires WRUL for international short-wave broadcasting.[3]
  • October 11: N. Eldon Tanner is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

  • January 3: LDS missionaries called to non-English-speaking service will first study for two months at the Language Training Mission.[3]
  • Upon hearing news of Billy Johnson's work in Ghana and others in Africa, David O. McKay petitions the Lord to lift the ban on blacks receiving the priesthood. He says that it is denied. It is not until 1978 that the ban is lifted.
  • Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus established.

1970s

Millennial Star

1970

1971

  • January: Ensign, New Era, and Friend magazines are first published; several publications are discontinued.
  • February: One Bad Apple released by The Osmonds reaches No. 1 in Billboard's Hot 100 Chart and stayed there for five weeks; it also reached No. 6 on the R&B chart.[58] The members of the Osmonds are devout LDS, and their religion was discussed in many popular media outlets.
  • June 8: The Genesis Group is formed. It becomes an official church auxiliary dedicated to serving the needs of black members, who cannot hold the priesthood at this time.
  • September 1: Relief Society dues are dropped and all LDS women are automatically enrolled.[11]
  • November 1: Richard L. Evans dies.
  • December 2: Marvin J. Ashton is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  • Church building provided in Jerusalem for large numbers of LDS tourists.[citation needed]

1972

1973

  • February: Agricultural missionary work is introduced in South America.[3]
  • April 7: The Welfare Services Department is created by the Priesthood Correlation Program, combining existing services, including the Welfare Program.[3]
  • June : The Plan, a concept album by the Osmonds is released. Although it is not one of their more successful albums, it explicitly deals with Mormon theology, including the plan of salvation.
  • December 26: After serving for little more than a year as president, Harold B. Lee dies.
  • December 30: Spencer W. Kimball becomes the 12th president of the LDS Church.

1974

Washington D.C. Temple as seen from the Outer Loop of the Capital Beltway
  • April 4: Spencer W. Kimball calls for those in the LDS Church to "lengthen your stride".[3]
  • April 11: L. Tom Perry is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  • June 23: Aaronic Priesthood MIA Young Women dissolved into Aaronic Priesthood and Young Women organizations.[3]
  • June 20: The LDS Church implements regional reorganization, including standardized naming of missions and stakes.[3]
  • August: Love Me for a Reason by the Osmonds reaches No. 1 in the UK Singles Charts.
  • September 1: The Church College of Hawaii is renamed Brigham Young University-Hawaii, as a satellite campus of BYU in Provo, Utah.[64]
  • September 6: Announcement that all LDS Church-owned hospitals would be divested into a new nonprofit organization, called Intermountain Health Care. This finalized on April 1, 1975.[65]
  • October 3: Stake seventies quorums are combined with stake missionary leadership.[3]
  • November 19: Washington D.C. Temple is dedicated, in a prominent position along the Capital Beltway.

1975

1976

1977

  • April: General Conference is reduced from 3 days down to 2 days, and moves from April 6 to the first Sunday in April and October.[12]
  • May 14: The title Young Men is adopted for the Aaronic priesthood program.[3]
  • September 19: The Mormon sex in chains case becomes a major scandal in the UK, after a missionary is abducted in Surrey. The coverage was extensive in part because the case was considered so anomalous, involving as it did the issue of rape of a man by a woman.

1978

  • March 31: Stake conferences are changed from quarterly to semiannual.[3]
  • April 1: The name extraction program is announced for local members to identify deceased persons from vital records and prepare their names for proxy temple ordinances.[68][69]
  • June 1: Spencer W. Kimball receives confirmation and revelation after supplicating the Lord regarding blacks and the priesthood. Moved by the exceeding faith of the Genesis Group, and moved by the dedication and perseverance of the mulattos in Brazil in building the São Paulo Brazil Temple, he takes the matter before the Lord, as many previous presidents of the church have done.
  • June 9: Spencer W. Kimball, after receiving the revelation, and discussing the matter with the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Quorum of the Seventy, announces that the ban on blacks receiving the priesthood has been lifted, and all males may receive the priesthood according to their worthiness, regardless of race. Despite previous understanding that blacks were not to receive the priesthood until the millennium, the members of the church receive the announcement with jubilation and it gains worldwide press attention.
  • June 23: Joseph Freeman, Jr., 26, the first black man to gain the priesthood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, went in the Salt Lake Temple with his wife and 5 sons for sacred ordinances. Thomas S. Monson, a member of the church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles, conducted the marriage and sealing ordinances. This event shows that blacks not only are able to gain the priesthood, but are able to interracially marry in the temple with the church's blessing. (Salt Lake Tribune, June 24, 1978)
  • June 30: Spencer W. Kimball dedicates the Monument to Women Memorial Garden in Nauvoo, Illinois.[70]
  • August 19: Delbert L. Stapley dies.
  • September 9: The Missionary Training Center opens in Provo, Utah, replacing the Language Training Mission and also the Mission Home in Salt Lake City.[64]
  • September 17: Battlestar Galactica first airs on American television. It is produced by church member Glen A. Larson, and he incorporated many themes from Mormon theology into the shows.
  • September 30: N. Eldon Tanner reads Official Declaration—2 in General Conference, and it is unanimously adopted as the word and will of the Lord. This is the declaration released publicly earlier in 1978, allowing blacks to receive the priesthood.
  • September 30: General authority emeritus status is introduced for those above age 70, with the exception of the First Presidency and the Apostles.[3]
  • October 1: James E. Faust is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  • October 30: São Paulo Brazil Temple opened, the first in South America, Latin America and in Brazil.
  • Gospel Principles, an official church lesson manual, is released.
  • LDS Church membership surpasses four million.[71]

1979

1980s

1980

  • March 2: LDS Church meetings are consolidated into a "block" schedule on Sundays, containing Sacrament Meeting, Sunday School, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, priesthood, and Relief Society.[11]
  • April 6: The LDS Church celebrates its sesquicentennial, and during General Conference Spencer W. Kimball dedicates the reconstructed log home where the church was founded in 1830.[73]
  • May 3: The discovery of the original Anthon Transcript is reported in the Church News.[74] It is later revealed to be one of the early Mark Hofmann forgeries in the 1980s.
  • October: Tokyo Japan Temple opens, the first in Asia, and in Japan.

1981

  • April 3: The "Three-fold Mission of the Church" (Perfect the Saints, Proclaim the Gospel, and Redeem the Dead) is declared at General Conference by church president Spencer W. Kimball.[11]
  • May 5: The LDS Church releases a statement opposing the placement of MX missiles in Utah, leading to a reversal of the Air Force plans.[75]
  • June 25: The LDS Church announces plans to install satellite dishes at its stake centers, for the purpose of receiving worldwide church programs, such as General Conference.
  • July 23: Gordon B. Hinckley is called as third counselor in the First Presidency, due to the physical weakness of Spencer W. Kimball, N. Eldon Tanner, and Marion G. Romney. Hinckley is referred to in the press as the "acting president of the church" because Kimball, Tanner, and Romney are largely out of the public eye.
  • July 23: Neal A. Maxwell is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, filling the vacancy left by Hinckley's call to the First Presidency.
  • September 26: New revised editions are published for the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price.[64] They include new sections added to the Doctrine and Covenants, as well as new cross-references, footnotes, index, and other study helps.
  • Russian & Polish editions of the Book of Mormon.

1982

  • April 2: Local congregations are now only required to fund 4% of building their new meetinghouses, with the remaining 96% paid by the LDS Church's general fund.[3]
  • June 1: Ground broken for construction of the Triad Center on June 1, 1982 by Essam Khashoggi, chairman of Triad America.
  • October 3: The subtitle Another Testament of Jesus Christ is added to the LDS Church's recently revised edition of the Book of Mormon.[64]
  • October 30: The Grandin Print Shop opens as an LDS historic site in Palmyra, New York.[3]
  • November 27: N. Eldon Tanner dies. Consequently, Marion G. Romney is named as First Counselor, and Gordon B. Hinckley is named as Second Counselor.
  • December 31: The God Makers, an anti-Mormon film by Ed Decker, is premiered, finding screenings in evangelical Christian churches. Its popularity results in books and sequels, and impacts public perception of the LDS Church, although its claims and tone are strongly criticized, even by opponents of the church, for misrepresenting or defaming Mormonism.
  • LDS Church membership surpasses five million.[76]

1983

1984

1985

1986

  • October: The general women's meeting is first held, and would continue on the Saturday before General Conference.[12]
  • October 4: Stake quorums of Seventy are dissolved.[3]
  • October 9: Joseph B. Wirthlin is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  • Arabic edition of Book of Mormon.
  • Protests against BYU president in Jerusalem by Jewish groups, shouting slogans such as "Conversion is Murder!" and "Mormons, stop your mission now".

1987

1988

  • May 15: A stake is created at Aba, Nigeria, the first in West Africa.[3]
  • May 20: Marion G. Romney, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, dies.
  • August: The 100 millionth proxy temple endowment for the dead is performed.[3]
  • October: The General Conference at this time marks the point at which women would be included as speakers in every General Conference going forward.[12]
  • October 1: Richard G. Scott is sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  • Hebrew edition of Book of Mormon, later withdrawn.

1989

1990s

1990

  • March 31: Helvécio Martins becomes first black general authority.
  • April 2: The release of FamilySearch software, which allows Family History Centers to access the church's genealogical resources on CD-ROM.[93]
  • April: Wording of endowment and temple ceremony altered, and wording changed to remove penalty oaths.
  • November 20: Costs are equalized for all missionaries, so all pay the same amount regardless of where they are serving, effective January 1, 1991.[94]

1991

1992

1993

The San Diego California Temple is dedicated.

1994

Howard W. Hunter becomes President of the Church.

1995

Gordon B. Hinckley becomes LDS Church president.
  • March 3: Howard W. Hunter dies after serving only nine months as president.
  • March 12: Gordon B. Hinckley becomes the 15th president of the LDS Church.
  • April 6: Henry B. Eyring is ordained and set apart in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  • April 1: The new office of Area Authority replaces regional representatives.
  • May: Liahona magazine commences publication.
  • September 23: "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" is published.
  • After a controversy, a deal is struck between the Jewish and LDS communities to "Remove from the International Genealogical Index in the future the names of all deceased Jews who are so identified if they are known to be improperly included counter to Church policy".[101]

1996

The Hong Kong China Temple is dedicated.

1997

Reenactments celebrate the Utah pioneer sesquicentennial.

1998

The Monticello Utah Temple was the first of the new, small design.

1999

The Salt Lake City Tornado of 1999 rips through downtown

See also

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  • v
  • t
  • e
        — (I.) Major two * —        
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 17.0 million (2022), about 98-99% of Latter Day Saint movement – Utah-based		Russell M. Nelson
presided 2018–present		Thomas S. Monson
presided 2008–2018		John Taylor
presided 1877–1887		Brigham Young
presided 1844–1877
Joseph Smith Jr.
presided 1830–1844[a]
Community of Christ
 252,000 (2019), about 1-2% of Latter Day Saint movement – Missouri-based		Steven M. Veazey
presided 2005–present		Wallace B. Smith
presided 1978–1966		Joseph Smith III
presided 1860–1914
 
— (II.) With membership in the thousands * —
The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
 19,029 members (Dec. 31, 2012) – Pennsylvania-based		Joel Gehly
presided 2018–present		William Bickerton
presided 1862–1880		Sidney Rigdon
presided 1844–1847[b]
Church of Christ With the Elijah Message
 over 12,000 members (1998) – Missouri-based		William Draves
presided 1943–1994
Apostolic United Brethren
 approximately 10,000 members (1998)– Utah-based		Mormon fundamentalism
John Woolley / Lorin Woolley
Council of Friends
(Short Creek Community)
presided 1918–1928 / 1928–1934
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
 approximately 10,000 members (2011) – Utah-based
  • v
  • t
  • e
See fundamentalist denominations in addition to the pair above.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Kingdom of God
Organized by:Frank Naylor and Ivan Neilsen – approx. 250		Centennial Park>
Organized by: Marion Hammon and Alma Timpson – approx. 1,500 members		FLDS church schismsWoolley schisms
Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc.
Organized by: Winston Blackmore – approx. 700 members
Church of the Lamb of God
Organized by: Ervil LeBaron – Current status unknown		Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times
Organized by: Joel F. LeBaron – Several hundred adherents		AUB schisms
Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Organized by: Gerald Peterson, Sr. – approx. 100 members
Church of Jesus Christ in Solemn Assembly
Organized by: Alex Joseph
Church of the New Covenant in Christ
Organized by: John W. Bryant
Latter Day Church of Christ
Organized by: Elden Kingston – approx. 2,000 members
School of the Prophets
Organized by: Robert C. Crossfield		LDS Church schisms
(Non-Woolley)
True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
Organized by: James D. Harmston – approx. 400 members
The Church of the Firstborn and the General Assembly of Heaven
Organized by: Terrill R. Dalton
Restoration branches movement which have created the
Joint Conference of Restoration Branches
 6,000–7,000 members[c] (2010) – Missouri-based
  • v
  • t
  • e
See Restoration branches movement groupings in addition to one above.
Smaller, founded in the 20th century 
Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Organized by: Frederick Niels Larsen– 1,000–2,000 members
Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Organized by: Several RLDS entities– 8 congregations
Minuscule, founded in the 20th century 
Church of Jesus Christ (Toneyite)
Organized by: Forrest Toney
Church of Jesus Christ Restored 1830
Organized by: Nolan W. Glauner
Church of Christ
Organized by: David B. Clark
Church of Jesus Christ (Zion's Branch)
Organized by: David B. Clark
Fellowships of the Remnant
About 5,000-10,000 participants (2017). Organized 2013 worldwide by
adherents of a self-subscribed neo-LDS fundamentalist and neo-"Reorganized Latter Day Saint" and Reorganization-like Restorationism revealed through Denver Snuffer
(excommunicated from LDS Church under Monson)
Church of Christ (Fettingite)
 2,000 members (1988); Missouri-based		Otto Fetting
presided 1927–1933
Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
 7,310 members (2013) – Missouri-based		Granville Hedrick
presided 1863–1881
  • v
  • t
  • e
See Temple Lot – derived denominations in addition to pair above.
Church of Christ
(Leighton-Floyd/Burt)
Organized by: Howard Leighton-Floyd
and H. H. Burt
approx. 35 members		William Draves
presided 1943–1994
Church of Christ with the
Elijah Message schisms		Otto Fetting
presided 1927–1933
Church of Christ
(Fettingite) schisms		Granville Hedrick
presided 1863–1881
Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
schisms
Church of Christ with
the Elijah Message
(The Assured Way
of the Lord)
Organized by:Leonard Draves		Church of Christ (Restored)
Organized by: A. C. DeWolf
approx. 450 members
[note 1]
Church of Israel
Organized by:Dan Gayman		Church of Christ
at Halley's Bluff
Organized by: Thomas B. Nerren
and E. E. Long
less than 100 members


  1. ^ While not considered a schism of the Church of Christ (Fettingite) and its founder Otto Fetting, the Church of Christ at Halley's Bluff accepted Fetting's revelations, but it did not immediately break with the Fettingites in 1929. Nerren and Long instead formed a separate sect in 1932, which was later joined by five other former Temple Lot congregations by 1941.
— (III.) Minuscule, founded in the 19th century *† —
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
 300 members (1998) – Wisconsin-based		James Strang
presided 1844–1856
Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)
 "one branch" (as of 2023)[1] – Missouri-based		Alpheus Cutler
presided 1853–1864


    *^  Membership worldwide; generally church-reported; with an occasional exception
    †^ Once larger

  1. ^ Organized the Church of Christ, the Latter Day Saint movement's original organization, of which multiple denominations currently believe themselves the true successor
  2. ^ See Rigdonite.
  3. ^ Members consider themselves as remaining adherents of the (historical) Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. (As of 2011, litigation by the Community of Christ against Restoration Branch individuals and entities generally established CofC's right to both the full and abbreviated RLDS name.)
  1. ^ Cutlerite.org. N.D. Accessed December 15, 2023.