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Apostolic succession (LDS Church)

February 23, 2023

Apostolic succession in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the process of transition to a new church president when the preceding one has died.

Summary

Established protocol

At the head of the LDS Church are fifteen men:[1] three of them, the church president and his two counselors, form the church's highest council, the First Presidency. In addition, a council serving the church in a role secondary to that of the First Presidency is the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

  • At the death of a church president, the First Presidency automatically dissolves. At this point, the presidency's counselors, if they had been drawn from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, return to their place of seniority within the Twelve, and the church enters an apostolic interregnum wherein the Quorum of the Twelve serves as the governing council for the church, under the direction of the quorum's president.
  • The quorum president – invariably the quorum member with longest tenure – possesses the authority to receive revelation to reorganize the First Presidency. If and when he does so, he counsels together with the Twelve on this matter. According to the pattern established when Spencer W. Kimball became the church president in the early 1970s, the Twelve meet to discuss the issue of reorganization on the Sunday following the funeral services held for the previous church president.[2][3][4] If the Quorum is unanimous, they proceed to set apart, by the laying on of hands by all the apostles, the new president, as well as the two counselors he has chosen, in order to form the new First Presidency. These counselors may be chosen from any holder of the Melchizedek priesthood. In most cases they are chosen from among the members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
  • To fill the vacancy arising in the Quorum of the Twelve when its president becomes the church president, or from quorum members leaving the quorum to serve as counselors in the First Presidency, the newly formed First Presidency meet and counsel together in order to recommend Melchizedek Priesthood holders to be called to fill the vacancy, or vacancies. Members of the Quorum of the Twelve can also make recommendations for consideration. The final decision rests with the church president. It is formally voted on, or sustained, by the Twelve and the counselors in the First Presidency.
This, and other church policy decisions, are made unanimously, with consultation among the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, and where appropriate, the Seventy, each of which has its own responsibility. Efforts are made to ensure the organizations are united in purpose and policy.
The man chosen is generally ordained an apostle by the President of the Church, a counselor in the First Presidency, or the President of the Twelve.

Life tenure

Each of the 15 men serving as apostles have life tenure, which may lead to an older or infirm church president, but also provides considerable training of apostles to take over the office of president.[5]

Apostolic interregnums

Following the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young presided over the church for three years as the President of the Twelve before the First Presidency was reconstituted. The tradition of waiting for two to three years before selecting a new president continued until the 1898 death of the fourth church president, Wilford Woodruff. Since then, the surviving apostles have typically met in the Salt Lake Temple on the Sunday following the late president's funeral, to select and set apart the next church president.

Ideal of unanimity

Russell M. Nelson: "In our meetings, the majority never rules! We listen prayerfully to one another and talk with each other until we are united. Then when we have reached complete accord, the unifying influence of the Holy Ghost is spine-tingling! We experience what the Prophet Joseph Smith knew when he taught, 'By union of feeling we obtain power with God.'"[6]

Theological background; succession crisis of 1844

See also: Apostolic succession and Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)

According to LDS restorationist beliefs, a period of universal apostasy had followed the death of the Christ's original Twelve Apostles.[7] Without such apostolic prophets left on the earth with possession of legitimate priesthood authority, many of the true teachings and practices of Christianity were lost. Eventually these were restored to Joseph Smith and others[8][9] in a series of divine conferrals and ordinations by angels who held this authority during their lifetimes (see this partial list of restoration events). Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery[10] said that the apostles Peter, James, and John appeared to them in 1829 and conferred upon them the Melchizedek priesthood[11] and with it "the keys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fullness of times."[12]

At the death of Joseph Smith, the president of the Quorum of the Twelve was Brigham Young. Young stated that Smith had taught that the Quorum of the Twelve would become the governing body of the church after Smith's death.

After an apostolic interregnum, the First Presidency was reorganized in 1847, with Young as president. The Twelve again took on a supporting role within a chain of command under the First Presidency. It then became established that, with some similarities to papal elections by the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve would appoint successors upon each death of a church president.[13]

LDS historical precedents

See also: Quorum of the Twelve and Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)

Prior to 1889, whether succession was to proceed by apostolic seniority had not become a universal expectation.[14] The History of apostolic succession within the LDS Church follows.[15][16][17]

  • From 1835 to 1843, seniority within the Quorum of the Twelve (then often called Council of the Twelve) was by age, that is, according to dates of birth. By 1843, Joseph Smith changed the criterion for seniority with regard to additions to the quorum to be determined by dates of calling to the quorum.[17] In 1875, Brigham Young refined considerations of seniority through subtracting the duration of any interruptions in active service as an apostle. This adjustment by Young changed the seniority of apostles Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt, due to brief interruptions in their respective service with the quorum.
  • The apostolic interregnum between Joseph Smith and Brigham Young was 3 years and 5 months. According to a personal journal comment early in this interregnum by Wilford Woodruff, no revelation to reorganize the First Presidency had been received at that time. The second interregnum, between Young and John Taylor, was 3 years and 1 month. The third interregnum, between Taylor and Woodruff, was 1 year and 8 months.

During this third interregnum, apostle Heber J. Grant proposed that fellow apostle Joseph F. Smith be set apart as church president (Smith was a son of Joseph Smith's brother, Hyrum Smith, and had junior tenure within the quorum at the time); however, the proposal did not gain sufficient support from the quorum for it to proceed.[18] When the Quorum of the Twelve has failed to achieve unanimity with regard to any matters brought before it, a decision is made to wait prior to taking action. Notwithstanding consideration of other scenarios on occasion, in every succession to date, church leadership has passed to the individual considered to have the most senior tenure.

  • In 1889, the next church president, Woodruff, advised the next senior-most apostle, Lorenzo Snow, to shorten the next interregnum going forward, to a matter of days. Describing the process of succession within the LDS Church's overall leadership in 1906 during the Smoot hearings, then-church president Joseph F. Smith described the then quite recently defined criteria of succession proceeding according by longest apostolic tenure as "a custom. There is no law in relation to it. It does not of necessity follow that the senior apostle would be or should be chosen[...]."[19] Be that as it may, in practice, from 1889 until the present, the custom has become a universal expectation.
  • Usually two counselors are called to serve along with the church president in the First Presidency but there could be more called. Furthermore, although the counselors are generally called from the Twelve, they don't have to be.
  • John Willard Young and Brigham Young, Jr. were ordained as apostles in 1864. John started service as a counselor in the First Presidency under Brigham Young (1873–1877), while Brigham Jr. served in the Twelve starting in 1868. In 1900, Lorenzo Snow, George Q. Cannon, and Joseph F. Smith changed the definition of seniority so that seniority was based on time in the quorum of the twelve apostles, rather than the time they were ordained apostles, as was previously done with the Youngs. The Youngs were moved down in seniority, making Joseph F. Smith next in line for the presidency instead of Brigham Young Jr.
  • In the early period of the LDS Church, sustaining votes by the church's general membership was not pro forma. Owing Mormons' instilled values of faithful obedience toward their duly anointed leaders, from after the succession of Brigham Young to the present, at LDS Church general conferences or other assemblies, prospective church leaderships presented to the church-membership receive nearly unanimously sustaining votes. Some critics contend that what gains as are achieved through such harmony may on occasion be offset by certain losses in dynamism.

Galleries and timelines

 
From left: Assistant President of the Church Hyrum Smith, apostle Willard Richards, church president Joseph Smith, apostles Orson Pratt, Parley Parker Pratt, Orson Hyde, Heber Chase Kimball, Brigham Young (1845 oil painting)

See also

References

  1. ^ Matthew Bowman (January 17, 2018). "The Mormon church has appointed its next president. Here's what to expect". The Washington Post.
  2. ^ N. Eldon Tanner, "Administration of the Restored Church", Tambuli, September 1978, p. 2.
  3. ^ "Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", churchofjesuschrist.org.
  4. ^ Nelson to announce new leadership Tuesday, Salt Lake Tribune, 13 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  5. ^ Ostling, Richard and Joan (2007). Mormon America: The Power and the Promise. HarperCollins. p. 151.
  6. ^ "Ministering together: LDS faithful energized after dynamic conference". Deseret News. April 2018.
  7. ^ "Apostasy – Gospel Topics". churchofjesuschrist.org. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  8. ^ "David Whitmer – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  9. ^ "Martin Harris – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  10. ^ "Oliver Cowdery – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  11. ^ Joseph Smith–History 1:72
  12. ^ Doctrine and Covenants 128:20
  13. ^ Joyner, James (January 28, 2008). "Mormon President Gordon Hinckley Dies". Outside the Beltway (blog). Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  14. ^ "Mormons make history, tap Gerrit W. Gong and Ulisses Soares for top leadership". CBS News.
  15. ^ "The New LDS First Presidency: Historical Notes and Contexts". Juvenile Instructor. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  16. ^ "Mystery, If We'll Have It – By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog". Bycommonconsent.com. 2018-01-18. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  17. ^ a b Travis Q. Mecham (2009). "Changes in Seniority to the Quorum of the Twelve Aposles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (master's thesis). Utah State University.
  18. ^ Ronald W. Walker (2004). "Grant's Watershed: Succession in the Presidency, 1887–1889". BYU Studies. 43 (1): 209.
  19. ^ United States Congress (1906). Congressional Series of United States Public Documents. Vol. 4932. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 93.
  20. ^ "Joseph Smith, Jr. – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  21. ^ "Hyrum Smith – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  22. ^ "Brigham Young – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  23. ^ "Heber Chase Kimball – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  24. ^ "Orson Hyde – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  25. ^ "Parley Parker Pratt – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  26. ^ "William B. Smith – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  27. ^ "Orson Pratt – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  28. ^ "John Taylor – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  29. ^ "Wilford Woodruff – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  30. ^ "Willard Richards – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  31. ^ "George Albert Smith – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  32. ^ "Lyman Wight – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  33. ^ "Amasa Mason Lyman – Biography". Joseph Smith Papers. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

Further reading

Official LDS Church
  • "Chapter 3: Succession in the Presidency". Teachings of the Living Prophets Student Manual. churchofjesuschrist.org. 2010.
  • "Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". MormonNewsroom.org. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
Scholarship

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Apostolic succession in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints LDS Church is the process of transition to a new church president when the preceding one has died Contents 1 Summary 1 1 Established protocol 1 2 Life tenure 1 3 Apostolic interregnums 1 4 Ideal of unanimity 2 Theological background succession crisis of 1844 3 LDS historical precedents 4 Galleries and timelines 5 See also 6 References 7 Further readingSummary EditEstablished protocol Edit At the head of the LDS Church are fifteen men 1 three of them the church president and his two counselors form the church s highest council the First Presidency In addition a council serving the church in a role secondary to that of the First Presidency is the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles At the death of a church president the First Presidency automatically dissolves At this point the presidency s counselors if they had been drawn from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles return to their place of seniority within the Twelve and the church enters an apostolic interregnum wherein the Quorum of the Twelve serves as the governing council for the church under the direction of the quorum s president The quorum president invariably the quorum member with longest tenure possesses the authority to receive revelation to reorganize the First Presidency If and when he does so he counsels together with the Twelve on this matter According to the pattern established when Spencer W Kimball became the church president in the early 1970s the Twelve meet to discuss the issue of reorganization on the Sunday following the funeral services held for the previous church president 2 3 4 If the Quorum is unanimous they proceed to set apart by the laying on of hands by all the apostles the new president as well as the two counselors he has chosen in order to form the new First Presidency These counselors may be chosen from any holder of the Melchizedek priesthood In most cases they are chosen from among the members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles To fill the vacancy arising in the Quorum of the Twelve when its president becomes the church president or from quorum members leaving the quorum to serve as counselors in the First Presidency the newly formed First Presidency meet and counsel together in order to recommend Melchizedek Priesthood holders to be called to fill the vacancy or vacancies Members of the Quorum of the Twelve can also make recommendations for consideration The final decision rests with the church president It is formally voted on or sustained by the Twelve and the counselors in the First Presidency This and other church policy decisions are made unanimously with consultation among the First Presidency the Quorum of the Twelve and where appropriate the Seventy each of which has its own responsibility Efforts are made to ensure the organizations are united in purpose and policy The man chosen is generally ordained an apostle by the President of the Church a counselor in the First Presidency or the President of the Twelve At the next semi annual general conference the membership of the church has the opportunity of sustaining their new leader by common consent at a special conference session referred to as a solemn assembly Life tenure Edit Each of the 15 men serving as apostles have life tenure which may lead to an older or infirm church president but also provides considerable training of apostles to take over the office of president 5 Apostolic interregnums Edit Following the death of Joseph Smith Brigham Young presided over the church for three years as the President of the Twelve before the First Presidency was reconstituted The tradition of waiting for two to three years before selecting a new president continued until the 1898 death of the fourth church president Wilford Woodruff Since then the surviving apostles have typically met in the Salt Lake Temple on the Sunday following the late president s funeral to select and set apart the next church president Ideal of unanimity Edit Russell M Nelson In our meetings the majority never rules We listen prayerfully to one another and talk with each other until we are united Then when we have reached complete accord the unifying influence of the Holy Ghost is spine tingling We experience what the Prophet Joseph Smith knew when he taught By union of feeling we obtain power with God 6 Theological background succession crisis of 1844 EditSee also Apostolic succession and Succession crisis Latter Day Saints According to LDS restorationist beliefs a period of universal apostasy had followed the death of the Christ s original Twelve Apostles 7 Without such apostolic prophets left on the earth with possession of legitimate priesthood authority many of the true teachings and practices of Christianity were lost Eventually these were restored to Joseph Smith and others 8 9 in a series of divine conferrals and ordinations by angels who held this authority during their lifetimes see this partial list of restoration events Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery 10 said that the apostles Peter James and John appeared to them in 1829 and conferred upon them the Melchizedek priesthood 11 and with it the keys of the kingdom and of the dispensation of the fullness of times 12 At the death of Joseph Smith the president of the Quorum of the Twelve was Brigham Young Young stated that Smith had taught that the Quorum of the Twelve would become the governing body of the church after Smith s death After an apostolic interregnum the First Presidency was reorganized in 1847 with Young as president The Twelve again took on a supporting role within a chain of command under the First Presidency It then became established that with some similarities to papal elections by the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church the LDS Church s Quorum of the Twelve would appoint successors upon each death of a church president 13 LDS historical precedents EditSee also Quorum of the Twelve and Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles LDS Church Prior to 1889 whether succession was to proceed by apostolic seniority had not become a universal expectation 14 The History of apostolic succession within the LDS Church follows 15 16 17 From 1835 to 1843 seniority within the Quorum of the Twelve then often called Council of the Twelve was by age that is according to dates of birth By 1843 Joseph Smith changed the criterion for seniority with regard to additions to the quorum to be determined by dates of calling to the quorum 17 In 1875 Brigham Young refined considerations of seniority through subtracting the duration of any interruptions in active service as an apostle This adjustment by Young changed the seniority of apostles Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt due to brief interruptions in their respective service with the quorum The apostolic interregnum between Joseph Smith and Brigham Young was 3 years and 5 months According to a personal journal comment early in this interregnum by Wilford Woodruff no revelation to reorganize the First Presidency had been received at that time The second interregnum between Young and John Taylor was 3 years and 1 month The third interregnum between Taylor and Woodruff was 1 year and 8 months During this third interregnum apostle Heber J Grant proposed that fellow apostle Joseph F Smith be set apart as church president Smith was a son of Joseph Smith s brother Hyrum Smith and had junior tenure within the quorum at the time however the proposal did not gain sufficient support from the quorum for it to proceed 18 When the Quorum of the Twelve has failed to achieve unanimity with regard to any matters brought before it a decision is made to wait prior to taking action Notwithstanding consideration of other scenarios on occasion in every succession to date church leadership has passed to the individual considered to have the most senior tenure In 1889 the next church president Woodruff advised the next senior most apostle Lorenzo Snow to shorten the next interregnum going forward to a matter of days Describing the process of succession within the LDS Church s overall leadership in 1906 during the Smoot hearings then church president Joseph F Smith described the then quite recently defined criteria of succession proceeding according by longest apostolic tenure as a custom There is no law in relation to it It does not of necessity follow that the senior apostle would be or should be chosen 19 Be that as it may in practice from 1889 until the present the custom has become a universal expectation Usually two counselors are called to serve along with the church president in the First Presidency but there could be more called Furthermore although the counselors are generally called from the Twelve they don t have to be John Willard Young and Brigham Young Jr were ordained as apostles in 1864 John started service as a counselor in the First Presidency under Brigham Young 1873 1877 while Brigham Jr served in the Twelve starting in 1868 In 1900 Lorenzo Snow George Q Cannon and Joseph F Smith changed the definition of seniority so that seniority was based on time in the quorum of the twelve apostles rather than the time they were ordained apostles as was previously done with the Youngs The Youngs were moved down in seniority making Joseph F Smith next in line for the presidency instead of Brigham Young Jr In the early period of the LDS Church sustaining votes by the church s general membership was not pro forma Owing Mormons instilled values of faithful obedience toward their duly anointed leaders from after the succession of Brigham Young to the present at LDS Church general conferences or other assemblies prospective church leaderships presented to the church membership receive nearly unanimously sustaining votes Some critics contend that what gains as are achieved through such harmony may on occasion be offset by certain losses in dynamism Galleries and timelines Edit From left Assistant President of the Church Hyrum Smith apostle Willard Richards church president Joseph Smith apostles Orson Pratt Parley Parker Pratt Orson Hyde Heber Chase Kimball Brigham Young 1845 oil painting President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Joseph Smith 20 age 38 Church president April 6 1830 June 27 1844 Hyrum Smith 21 age 44 Assistant President of the Church January 24 1841 June 27 1844Quorum of the Twelve at the inaugural apostolic interregnum 1844 Brigham Young 22 age 43 February 14 1835 December 27 1847 Heber C Kimball 23 age 43 February 14 1835 December 27 1847 Orson Hyde 24 age 39 February 15 1835 May 4 1839June 27 1839 November 28 1878 Parley Pratt 25 age 37 February 21 1835 May 13 1857 William Smith 26 age 33 note photo circa 1862 February 15 1835 May 4 1839May 25 1839 October 6 1845 Orson Pratt 27 age 32 April 26 1835 August 20 1842January 20 1843 October 3 1881 John Taylor 28 age 35 December 19 1838 October 10 1880 Wilford Woodruff 29 age 37 April 26 1839 April 7 1889 Willard Richards 30 age 40 April 14 1840 December 27 1847 George A Smith 31 age 27 April 26 1839 October 7 1868 Lyman Wight 32 age 48 April 8 1841 December 3 1848 Amasa M Lyman 33 age 31 August 20 1842 January 20 1843 October 6 1845 October 6 1867 Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints after Joseph Smith Brigham YoungDecember 27 1847 August 29 1877 John TaylorOctober 10 1880 July 25 1887 Wilford WoodruffApril 7 1889 September 2 1898 Lorenzo SnowSeptember 13 1898 October 10 1901 Joseph F SmithOctober 17 1901 November 19 1918 Heber J GrantNovember 23 1918 May 14 1945 George Albert SmithMay 21 1945 April 4 1951 David O McKayApril 9 1951 January 18 1970 Joseph Fielding SmithJanuary 23 1970 July 2 1972 Harold B LeeJuly 7 1972 December 26 1973 Spencer W KimballDecember 30 1973 November 5 1985 Ezra Taft BensonNovember 10 1985 May 30 1994 Howard W HunterJune 5 1994 March 3 1995 Gordon B HinckleyMarch 12 1995 January 27 2008 Thomas S MonsonFebruary 3 2008 January 2 2018 Russell M NelsonJanuary 14 2018 presentSee also EditChronology of the First Presidency LDS Church References Edit Matthew Bowman January 17 2018 The Mormon church has appointed its next president Here s what to expect The Washington Post N Eldon Tanner Administration of the Restored Church Tambuli September 1978 p 2 Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints churchofjesuschrist org Nelson to announce new leadership Tuesday Salt Lake Tribune 13 January 2018 Retrieved 13 January 2018 Ostling Richard and Joan 2007 Mormon America The Power and the Promise HarperCollins p 151 Ministering together LDS faithful energized after dynamic conference Deseret News April 2018 Apostasy Gospel Topics churchofjesuschrist org 21 February 2012 Retrieved 18 July 2013 David Whitmer Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Martin Harris Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Oliver Cowdery Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Joseph Smith History 1 72 Doctrine and Covenants 128 20 Joyner James January 28 2008 Mormon President Gordon Hinckley Dies Outside the Beltway blog Retrieved November 7 2012 Mormons make history tap Gerrit W Gong and Ulisses Soares for top leadership CBS News The New LDS First Presidency Historical Notes and Contexts Juvenile Instructor Retrieved 2018 01 25 Mystery If We ll Have It By Common Consent a Mormon Blog Bycommonconsent com 2018 01 18 Retrieved 2018 01 25 a b Travis Q Mecham 2009 Changes in Seniority to the Quorum of the Twelve Aposles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints master s thesis Utah State University Ronald W Walker 2004 Grant s Watershed Succession in the Presidency 1887 1889 BYU Studies 43 1 209 United States Congress 1906 Congressional Series of United States Public Documents Vol 4932 U S Government Printing Office p 93 Joseph Smith Jr Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Hyrum Smith Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Brigham Young Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Heber Chase Kimball Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Orson Hyde Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Parley Parker Pratt Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 William B Smith Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Orson Pratt Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 John Taylor Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Wilford Woodruff Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Willard Richards Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 George Albert Smith Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Lyman Wight Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Amasa Mason Lyman Biography Joseph Smith Papers Retrieved 2018 02 01 Further reading EditOfficial LDS Church Chapter 3 Succession in the Presidency Teachings of the Living Prophets Student Manual churchofjesuschrist org 2010 Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints MormonNewsroom org Retrieved January 16 2018 ScholarshipMartin B Hickman 1992 Succession in the Presidency In Daniel H Ludlow ed Encyclopedia of Mormonism New York Macmillan pp 1420 1421 ISBN 978 0028796000 Steven H Heath 1987 Notes on Apostolic Succession PDF Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought 20 2 44 56 Gary James Bergera 1992 Seniority in the Twelve The 1875 Realignment of Orson Pratt Journal of Mormon History 18 1 19 58 Alexander L Baugh amp Richard Neitzel Holzapfel 2010 I Roll the Burthen and Responsibility of Leading This Church Off from My Shoulders on to Yours The 1844 1845 Declaration of the Quorum of the Twelve Regarding Apostolic Succession 49 3 Article 2 BYU Studies 1 16 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Ronald W Walker 2011 Six Days in August Brigham Young and the Succession Crisis of 1844 In David J Whittaker amp Arnold K Garr ed A Firm Foundation Church Organization and Administration Religious Studies Center Brigham Young University ISBN 978 0 8425 2785 9 Benjamin E Park amp Robin Scott Jensen 2013 Debating Succession March 1846 John E Page Orson Hyde and the Trajectories of Joseph Smith s Legacy Journal of Mormon History 39 1 181 205 Edward Leo Lyman 2014 Succession by Seniority The Development of Procedural Precedents in the LDS Church Journal of Mormon History 40 2 92 158 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Apostolic succession LDS Church amp oldid 1124735721, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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