For the information of the members of the Church, the First Presidency has issued the following statistical report concerning the growth and status of the Church as of 31 December 1984.
|
Number of stakes |
1,507 |
|
Number of districts |
353 |
|
Number of missions |
180 |
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Number of wards |
9,723 |
|
Number of branches in stakes |
2,697 |
|
Number of branches in missions |
2,043 |
|
Number of sovereign countries with organized wards or branches |
96 |
|
Number of territories, colonies, and possessions with organized wards or branches |
18 |
|
Total membership at the close of 1984 |
5,650,000 |
|
Increase in Children of Record |
98,000 |
|
Children of Record baptized |
69,000 |
|
Converts baptized |
192,983 |
|
Deacons |
240,000 |
|
Teachers |
178,000 |
|
Priests |
356,000 |
|
Elders |
465,000 |
|
Seventies |
33,000 |
|
High Priests |
198,000 |
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Full-time missionaries |
27,655 |
|
Names cleared in 1984 for temple endowments |
6,328,870 |
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For the living |
53,998 |
|
Seminaries and institutes, including special programs |
322,802 |
|
Persons assisted by LDS Social Services |
84,069 |
Prominent Members Who Have Passed Away Since Last April
Elder G. Homer Durham, a member of the Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy, who was Church Historian and Recorder; Ethel D. Stapley, widow of Elder Delbert L. Stapley, a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles; Neil D. Schaerrer, former general president of the Young Men Organization; and Emily Higgs Bennett, former counselor in the YWMIA Presidency.
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