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7 unusual facts about RLDS


Presiding Patriarch

That tradition was discontinued in 1958 when RLDS Church President W. Wallace Smith, a grandson of Joseph Smith, Jr., presented Roy Cheville as a successor to Elbert A. Smith.

RLDS

Community of Christ, from 1872 to 2001 known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or RLDS Church

Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a conservative church that broke with the RLDS Church in 1991

Restoration Branches, a number of congregations that have separated from the RLDS Church since the 1980s, some of which claim usage of "RLDS Church"

Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a conservative church that broke with the RLDS Church in 2000

Thomas H. Swope

The building was razed in 1960, having been purchased by the RLDS church in 1923.

W. Wallace Smith

In 1958, 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 an RLDS traditional doctrine of lineal succession.


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Joseph Smith III

However, the RLDS Church failed in its bid to acquire legal title to the Temple Lot in the Temple Lot Case of the late 1890s.

Linda L. Booth

Along with Gail E. Mengel, Booth was one of the first two women apostles in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church).


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