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As of October 2018, the LDS Church membership records reported 1,383,799 members in Brazil. [1] The 2010 Brazilian census reported 226,509 self-identifying specifically as LDS Church. [4] Brazil has the most members of the LDS Church in South America and the 3rd most members of any country worldwide, behind the United States and Mexico. [5]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) releases membership, congregational, and related information on a regular basis. The latest membership information the church releases includes a count of membership, stakes, wards, branches, missions, temples, and FamilySearch Centers for the worldwide church and for individual ...
Areas of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in US and ... Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil. Official Website. 1,472,521 Members, 281 Stakes, 40 Districts
Soares has served in the LDS Church as an elders quorum president, counselor in a bishopric, member of a stake high council and regional welfare agent. In 1995, Soares was appointed the first president of the São Paulo Brazil Cotia Stake. [11] [12] Soares served as president of the Portugal Porto Mission from 2000 to 2003.
Church membership in Brazil continues to grow quickly. The Campinas Temple serves more than 117,000 members from 36 stakes in the area. Brazil is home to more Latter-day Saints than any other country in the world, except the United States and Mexico. Plans to build the Campinas Brazil Temple were announced on April 3, 1997.
The church announced that these seventies would become members of a Quorum of the Seventy based upon the geographic region to which they were assigned. [2] Later, the title "area authority seventy" was shortened to area seventy , which is the title currently in use.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil; 0–9. 1978 Revelation on Priesthood; G. Mark L. Grover
In areas with a high concentration of Latter-day Saints such as Utah, household sizes and fertility rates have historically been above the national average. [64] As of 2021, American church members have an average of 2.8 children per household by ages 35-45, as opposed to a US national average of 2.06. [65]