Latter-day Saint

A Latter Day Saint is a person who identifies with the Latter Day Saint movement, and is a follower of Mormonism. Latter Day Saints trace their religious heritage through Joseph Smith, Jr., and teach that he restored the original "Church of Christ", which had disappeared from the earth after a period of apostasy. Latter Day Saints consider themselves to be "saints" in the earliest Christian sense of the word, meaning members of the original church which they believe Jesus organized before his death in the First Century, AD.

List of Latter Day Saint churches and sects (See http://www.adherents.com )

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints* (Largest--12 million members worldwide)
• Community of Christ† (2nd Largest--250 thousand)
• Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Church of Christ (Temple Lot)
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
• Aaronic Order
• Apostolic United Brethren
• Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite)
• Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
• Church of Christ with the Elijah Message
• Church of Jesus Christ in Zion
• Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Restored Church of Jesus Christ
• Sons Aumen Israel
• True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days

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: * Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, called the LDS Church or Mormon Church, although media often refer to the much smaller groups as Mormons also.

Related Topics:
Salt Lake City, Utah - Mormon

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: † Formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or RLDS Church.

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The contemporary, Utah-based LDS Church no longer practices polygamy and follows the laws of the United States governments with regards to its marriages.

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