Mormon founder
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Mormons
Religious group; part of the Latter Day Saint movement
"Mormon" redirects here. For the Book of Mormon prophet who the word originally derives from, see Mormon (Book of Mormon). For other uses, see Mormon (disambiguation).
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Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several groups following different leaders; the majority followed Brigham Young, while smaller groups followed Joseph Smith III, Sidney Rigdon, and James Strang. Most of these smaller groups eventually merged into the Community of Christ, and th
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Mormonism
Religious tradition and theology founded by Joseph Smith
This article is about the doctrine in the Latter Day Saint movement. For the main branch of this movement commonly called the "Mormon Church", see The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For the people commonly known as Mormons, see Mormons. For the general religious movement, see Latter Day Saint movement. For other uses, see Mormon (disambiguation).
Mormonism is the theology and religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of RestorationistChristianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 1830s. As a label, Mormonism has been applied to various aspects of the Latter Day Saint movement, although since 2018 there has been a push from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to distance itself from this label.[1] One historian, Sydney E. Ahlstrom, wrote in 1982 that, depending on the context, the term Mormonism could refer to "a sect, a mystery cult, a new religion, a church, a people, a nation, or an American subculture; indeed, at diff
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History of the Church
Joseph Smith
After the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the death of his apostles, and faced with organized persecution and hostility from within the pagan Roman Empire, the church that Christ had established with its simple but beautiful doctrines and authority began rapidly to change. By the fourth century, it bore little resemblance to the original Church of Christ. With the loss of divine approval and authority from the Church, a long period of spiritual darkness followed.
But in the spring of 1820, on the other side of the world, God appeared to a 14-year-old boy named Joseph Smith, setting in motion the events that led to the "restoration" of the ancient Church of Jesus Christ to the earth.
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Joseph Smith was born 23 December 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, in the northeastern United States. He later moved with his family to the rural community of Palmyra, New Yo
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