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KEITH PARRY
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
Mormon Church

Author: KEITH PARRY

The Mormon Church was founded in 1830 in upstate New York. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by far the largest Mormon denomination, is the only one of significance in Canada. Its members regard it as the ancient church of Christ, destroyed through apostasy but restored by divine revelation. Unlike Catholics and Protestants, Latter-day Saints accord sacred value to a continuing record of revelations received through church leaders, as well as to the Bible; and they accept the Book of Mormon as the inspired translation of accounts concerning immigrant descendants of the House ...

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