The Church in Ireland

The first missionary to Ireland arrived in Belfast in May 1840. He was followed on July 28 by the Apostle John Taylor. More than 600 people heard Elder Taylor preach that evening in Newry. Three days later, Thomas Tait was the first to be baptized.

As part of the 150th anniversary of the Church in the British Isles in 1987, markers were dedicated at the site of the first baptism and at the birthplace in Dublin of Elder Charles A. Callis of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, once president of the Irish Conference while serving as a missionary during the 1890s.

Here are a few facts about the Church in Ireland today: