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Which groups dissented from leadership of the Quorum of the Twelve?
Which groups dissented from leadership of the Quorum of the Twelve?
Not all of the Saints accepted the Twelve as the divinely authorized successors to Joseph Smith. In the time immediately after the Twelve assumed leadership, many individuals (including Sidney Rigdon, James Strang, and others) led groups of dissenting Saints, though these movements quickly disbanded. Later, Joseph Smith III, with the assistant of William Marks, assumed leadership of another group of dissenting Saints. This movement endured and became known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (now called the Community of Christ).[1]
Some Saints believed that the Church led by Brigham Young would eventually be led by Joseph Smith III, or another of Joseph Smith Jr.'s sons. Though Brigham Young himself hoped that Joseph's sons would one day become leaders in the Church, he acknowledged they had to do so "if that person conformed to the revelation of God and received that office humbly through the constituted apostolic authority that directed it at present."[2]
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Notes
- ↑ Russell R. Rich, Nineteenth-Century Break-offs, Ensign, September 1979.
- ↑ D. Michael Quinn, "The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844," BYU Studies 16:2.