The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reports that its membership has surpassed 17 million worldwide, spurred by a 26% rise in convert baptisms last year.
A Latter-day Saint baptism in New Zealand.Thanks largely to a surge of converts, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reached a membership milestone last year, topping 17 million worldwide.released during Saturday’s General Conference, a 1.1% bump from the 16,805,400 reported the previous year.
Convert baptisms swelled last year by 26% to 212,172, up from 168,283 in 2021 as COVID-19 restrictions continued to ease. That number remained behind the 248,835 converts in 2019. Baby blessings, which add infants to the Utah-based faith’s rolls as “children of record,” were virtually flat at 89,059 in 2022, a dip of 10 from the prior year and well below the six figures that were common earlier in the past decade.• 62,544 proselytizing missionaries.
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