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No. Portrait Prophet-President Birth Ordination End of term Length Death 1: Joseph Smith: December 23, 1805: April 6, 1830: June 27, 1844: 14 years: June 27, 1844
President of the Council of Twelve Apostles Secretary of the Council of Twelve Apostles American Gail E. Mengel 31 March 1998: 2005: Called as Ecumenical and Interfaith Officer President of Church Women United. Ecumenical and Interfaith Officer American, along with Linda L. Booth, the first women to be ordained apostles. Linda L. Booth: 1998: 2019
His grandfather was Lyman Wight, one of the original apostles of the Church of Christ established by Joseph Smith, Jr. After Joseph Smith's death, the church divided into several groups, one of which Wight led to Texas. In 1858, Heman's family left Texas, and they eventually settled in Shelby County, Iowa. In 1862, Smith and his family were ...
The Community of Christ continues "honoring his role" in the church's founding history but deemphasizes human leadership, including that of Smith, in favor of "greater focus on Jesus Christ." [ 37 ] Conversely, Woolleyite Mormon fundamentalism has deified Smith within a cosmology of many gods.
Joseph Smith III was the Prophet-President of what became the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church), renamed Community of Christ in 2001, which considers itself a continuation of the church established by Smith's father in 1830. [2] [3] For fifty-four years until his own death, Smith presided over the church. [4]
William Smith (also found as William B. Smith) (March 13, 1811 – November 13, 1893) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Smith's tenure as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1951 to 1970 is the third-longest in church history; [1] he served in that capacity during the entire presidency of David O. McKay. Smith spent some of his years among the Twelve Apostles as the Church Historian and Recorder. He was a religious scholar and a prolific writer.
Alexander Hale Smith (June 2, 1838 – August 12, 1909) was the third surviving son of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale Smith.Smith was born in Far West, Missouri, and was named after Alexander Doniphan, who had refused an order to execute Joseph Smith, and then was Joseph's defense attorney during Joseph's incarceration at Liberty Jail. [2]