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    The Priesthood Restoration Site, formally known as the Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site, is a historic site located in Oakland Township, Susquehanna...
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    Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood: John the Baptist (also known simply as Priesthood Restoration or John the Baptist) is a 1957 bronze sculpture by...
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    Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood is a 1960s bronze sculpture by Avard Fairbanks. The artwork was commissioned by the First Presidency of the...
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    Aaronic priesthood (/ɛəˈrɒnɪk/; also called the priesthood of Aaron or the Levitical priesthood) is the lesser of the two orders of priesthood recognized...
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    family while he was employed by Josiah Stowell. The Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site preserves the location of their home. According to the United...
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    288 acres at the location, and operates the Priesthood Restoration Site historic area. The historic site was developed in 2015 and includes a visitor...
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    renovated Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site in Pennsylvania, where LDS Church members believe the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods were restored. In...
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    nor Cowdery ever gave a date for this visitation. After the restoration of the Priesthood, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery began baptizing dozens of people...
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    church's decision to ordain women to the priesthood. Restoration Branches continue to assert that only men have priesthood authority; however, other religious...
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    Day Saints) Cumorah Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site Peter Whitmer log home Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site John Johnson Farm Zion (Latter...
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  • Saints holds a number of sites as historically significant. This list is intended as a quick reference for these sites. The sites may or may not be owned...
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    From 1852 to 1978, temple and priesthood policies in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) prohibited both Black women and men from...
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  • proselyte and went forward with the site selection where the church was able to get a place next to one of the entrances. The site was dedicated on March 27, 1963...
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  • heresies.: 33  The "Restoration"—as begun by Joseph Smith and embodied in the church itself—refers to a return of the authentic priesthood power, spiritual...
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    of Black African descent from ordination in the church's lay, all-male priesthood. During that time the LDS Church also opposed interracial marriage, supported...
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    work Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood was added to Temple Square; a relief version of this sculpture was added to the Priesthood Restoration Site in...
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    8 or older. According to Restoration Revelations 24:11-12 (published in April, 1998), only the priesthood of the Restoration Church has the authority...
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  • North-east Pennsylvania area article related to dedication of the Priesthood Restoration Site Church Announces New Mission Presidents for 2019, LDS Church...
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    leadership, the historical basis of the Book of Mormon, and the concept that priesthood authority had been restored in the 1820s and 1830s after centuries of...
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    Publication Site Hill Cumorah Smith Family Farm (Sacred Grove) Kirtland Historic Kirtland Village (Newel K. Whitney Store) Kirtland Temple Other Priesthood Restoration...
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  • Mormonism, including but not limited to: ongoing prophetic leadership, a priesthood polity, the use of the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants as...
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  • LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. Snow was instrumental in updating the Priesthood Restoration Site that was dedicated by Russell M. Nelson on September 19, 2015...
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    Mount Gerizim Temple (category Archaeological sites in Samaria)
    sanctuaries, and the credibility of Josephus's claims about interrelated priesthoods and families, it is likely that some Samaritans turned to the Jerusalem...
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    sacerdos maxima for a woman who held the highest priesthood of the Magna Mater's temple near the current site of St. Peter's Basilica. Inscriptions for the...
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  • to be ordained to the priesthood. After a failed repeal attempt in 1986, some opponents separate into independent Restoration Branches. April 7: Some...
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    the death of its builder, who had attempted to overcome the powerful priesthood who had gained control over Egypt before his reign. It was so thoroughly...
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    church congregations had stagnated, the number of candidates entering the priesthood had begun to decline, and the Second Vatican Council reforms moved much...
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    and spiritual experiences by church leaders, including the restoration of certain priesthood keys through ancient prophets Moses, Elias (understood to...
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    "a complete system of belief and ritual, with liturgy and sacraments, priesthood and pontiff, all organized around the public veneration of Humanity",...
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  • Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration is a 2005 film that focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter...
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