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The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
In 1830, he published the resulting narratives as the Book of Mormon and founded the Church of Christ in western New York, claiming it to be a restoration of early Christianity. Moving the church to Kirtland, Ohio in 1831, Joseph Smith attracted hundreds of converts, who were called Latter Day Saints.
14 April 1840 Willard Richards ordained in England. Also the first occasion where Brigham Young was formally sustained President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles 8 April 1841 Lyman Wight ordained. 20 August 1842 Orson Pratt excommunicated. Amasa M. Lyman ordained. 20 January 1843 Orson Pratt rebaptized and restored to former office in the ...
Brigham Young (/ ˈ b r ɪ ɡ əm / BRIG-əm; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) [4] was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877.
In May 1840, the first issue of the Millennial Star, a magazine for British Latter-day Saints, was printed. [23] It would be published regularly until 1970, becoming the longest continuously published periodical of the LDS Church. [24] By the end of 1840 there were 3,626 church members in Britain. [25]: 19
The records of the LDS Church show membership growth every decade since its beginning in the 1830s, although that has slowed significantly.Following initial growth rates that averaged 10% to 25% per year in the 1830s through 1850s, it grew at about 4% per year through the last four decades of the 19th century.
Members of the church were later called Latter Day Saints or Mormons. In 1831, Smith and his followers moved west, planning to build a communal Zion in the American heartland. They first gathered in Kirtland, Ohio , and established an outpost in Independence, Missouri , which was intended to be Zion's "center place."
The church doubled in size every 15 to 20 years, [93] and by 1996, there were more Mormons outside the United States than inside. [94] In 2012, there were an estimated 14.8 million Mormons, [95] with roughly 57 percent living outside the United States. [96]