movement, the Presiding Patriarch (also called Presiding Evangelist, Patriarch over the Church, Patriarch of the Church, or Patriarch to the Church)...

single patriarch, known as the Presiding Patriarch or Patriarch to the Church, exercised his office throughout the whole church. The first patriarch was...

the office of Presiding Patriarch was one of the highest and most important offices of the church's priesthood. When a Presiding Patriarch has existed,...

ordained to be the church's first Presiding Patriarch on December 18, 1833. In reference to his father's role as patriarch of the church, Joseph Jr. likened...

connected with the practice were the President of the Church and the Presiding Patriarch. Latter Day Saint scripture teaches that a person may also be called...

Church, now Community of Christ). Smith served as an apostle and as Presiding Patriarch of the church. He became religiously inclined after the April 1862...

Presidency, Council of Twelve Apostles, seven quorums of the Seventy, and a Presiding Bishopric. Zenas H. Gurley, Sr. became President of the Council of Twelve...

instead of calling Lynn Smith to replace his father in the office of Presiding Patriarch, W. Wallace Smith named Roy Cheville to the office, in a break with...

John Smith (September 22, 1832 – November 6, 1911), was the fifth Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)....

Church) from April 9, 1906, until his death. He also served as Acting Presiding Patriarch of the LDS Church from 1937 to 1942 and President of the Quorum of...

After relocating to Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith became the church's Presiding Patriarch, a position first held by his father, Joseph Smith Sr. He also replaced...

created the office of "Patriarch over the Church" and ordained his father, Joseph Smith Sr., to fill the role. The "Presiding Patriarch", as the office came...

official title was "Patriarch to the Church," in place of the previous style of "Patriarch over the Church" or "Presiding Patriarch," a change which was...

member of the Presiding Bishopric had been called to be a general authority in another capacity upon being released from the Presiding Bishopric. Most...

capacity from 1979 to his death. Smith's father was Hyrum G. Smith, the presiding patriarch of the LDS Church from 1912 to 1932. The younger Smith graduated...

local evangelist-patriarchs of the church were governed by an individual with church-wide authority known as the Presiding Patriarch. In 1984, when the...

May 24, 1845, Smith succeeded his late brother Hyrum Smith as the Presiding Patriarch of the church. Shortly after his ordination to this position, Brigham...

the Twelve Apostles. In the past, it has also been applied to the Presiding Patriarch of the church and the Assistant President of the Church. Other denominations...

first presiding high council in Kirtland, Ohio, as an assistant counselor in the First Presidency under Joseph Smith, and as presiding patriarch under...

son Elbert A. Smith became a member of the First Presidency and a Presiding Patriarch in the RLDS Church. Smith was called the "Sweet Singer of Israel"...

more influence to the Presiding Patriarch of the church than had any president since Joseph Smith. The church's presiding patriarch, John Smith, was his...

Hyrum Gibbs Smith (July 8, 1879 – February 4, 1932) was Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1912...

member of the church's First Presidency from 1909 to 1938 and the Presiding Patriarch of the church from 1938 to 1958. Smith was born in Nauvoo, Illinois...

The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople (Greek: Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, romanized: Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople and...

century and was officially ended in 1943. "'Both the Presiding Patriarch and local stake patriarchs charged a fee. In the 1840s the fee was $1 per patriarchal...

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates and was the first Presiding Patriarch of the early Latter Day Saint church. Lucy Mack Smith July 8, 1775...

English editor of Bede John Smith (uncle of Joseph Smith) (1781–1854), Presiding Patriarch and member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ...

30 people and are governed by a First Presidency, a presiding bishop, and a presiding patriarch. In the early 1950s, Theron Drew, a member of the Church...

Richard Arthur Marchenna, Presiding bishop (1960–1962) Robert Ritchie, Presiding bishop (1962–1988) David Charles Thomson, Presiding bishop (1988–2001) Polish...

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