Chronology Of Mormonism In France

The chronology of Mormonism in France begins in 1849 with the arrival of a missionary Welsh, William Howells (1816-1851).

1849-1864

July 9, 1849: The first missionary, a Welshman, William Howells (1816-1851), arrived at Le Havre. He will preach at St. Malo, Dinan, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

July 30, 1849: In Le Havre, William Howells Christens English, Augustus Saint Anna.

Later in 1849: Sir William Howells named Pebble and a young woman, Anna Browse.

October 7, 1849: Brigham Young (1801-1877) called John Taylor (1808-1887) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Curtis and John Bolton pack to preach the Gospel in France.

1850: William Howells named Mr. and Mrs. Viets.

April 6, 1850: William Howells organizing a branch in Boulogne-sur-Mer with six members.

May 4, 1850: John Taylor , Curtis and John Bolton Pack leave New York after trying to find money from local members to finance their mission.

May 27, 1850: John Taylor , Curtis and John Bolton pack arrived in Liverpool.

June 18, 1850: John Taylor , Curtis Bolton and William Howells (who had gone to England to meet the others) arrive in Boulogne-sur-Mer on the steamer "Emerald" .

June 29, 1850: Frederick H. Piercy and Arthur Stayner leave for Paris.

1 July 1850: The first in a series of public meetings held in Boulogne-sur-Mer, 21 rue Montigny. About thirty people attending .

July 19, 1850: John Taylor and Curtis Bolton leave for Paris. They settled at 7 rue de Tournon ^(Sixth District) which will begin the translation of the Book of Mormon.

Fall 1850: Frederick Piercy, Arthur Stayner and William Howells returned to England. William Howells wrote of his mission: "I am pleased to say today that, despite the gnashing of teeth, fists waved in my face, threats of imprisonment and the cries of 'false prophet' who have been initiated the devil failed in his attempts ... And when I was dragged to prison, I am delighted at the idea of house where our beloved Jesus, his apostles, Joseph, Hyrum, Jones and many, many noble souls, were before me ... I sowed the seeds with a big enough success. May our heavenly Father to bear fruit. "

November 14, 1850: John Taylor , who has been absent, returned to Paris with Philippe de la Mare, converted to the island of Jersey.

1 December 1850: John Taylor baptized in the River Seine to the island of Saint-Ouen, Jean-Baptiste Wilhelm and his wife, Louis Bertrand (1808-1875, editor of the newspaper Communist Icarian ), Mr and Mrs Squires and their nine year old son.

December 8, 1850: A branch was organized in Paris with eight members. Wilhelm was ordained former Baptist, Louis Bertrand was ordained a priest.

December 15, 1850: Baptism of Isidore Bellanger.

December 29, 1850: Isidore Bellanger was ordained and sent on a mission in his home village Grand Luce, near Le Mans. There will be a lot of success, preaching at meetings of more than one hundred fifty people.

February 1851: Lorenzo Snow (1814-1901) of the Quorum of the Twelve, is passing through.

February 25, 1851: Philippe de la Mare returned to Jersey via Le Mans. He remained a few days with Pierre Bellanger Grand Luce.

May 29, 1851: The first issue of the Journal fate of the printer presses Marc Ducloux. He published until April 1852.

June 3, 1851: John Pack is called to preside over the Channel Islands.

1 November 1851: The Feast of All Saints at Gournay, near Le Havre, Curtis Bolton Plassard named Marie-Josephe, Marie-Louise Turbert, Julie Thomas, Julie Leroy and Jane Limard. Two days later, at the same location, named Marie-Josephe Lebretton Mrs Henriod and five children: Henry, Eugene, Harriet, Samuel and Gustav. A branch is organized and chaired by James Hart, who arrived in Jersey. Henry and Eugene Henriod are ordained priests. Before returning to Paris, Curtis Bolton Ernest baptize Lepelletier .

Mid-December 1851: In Paris, Curtis Bolton named gentlemen Bentz and Fonteneau.

December 20, 1851: In Paris, John Taylor chaired the first district conference. Curtis Bolton is named President of the French mission. Louis Bertrand, ordained a high priest, became his chief advisor and president of the Paris district. James Hart, also ordered the high priest, became his second counsel and president of the district of Le Havre.

December 21, 1851: John Taylor left Paris for Utah.

1851: There are 270 members of the Church in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey (Channel Islands) who at that time were French.

January 28, 1852: The Book of Mormon was printed in French.

May 1852: There are thirty-four members of the Church in Paris, Curtis Bolton included. Forty people have been baptized in France: Twenty-seven to Paris, thirteen in Le Havre.

June 6, 1852: First meeting in a public hall in Paris at 37 rue de Charonne, "at the bottom of the courtyard of the spine, at Martin." The assembly is composed of 33 members, 20 French and 13 foreign. The same evening, Curtis Bolton received a note from the Police Commissioner asking for a list of church members and their addresses.

December 20, 1852: Curtis Bolton left Paris for Utah.

April 26, 1853: Arrival of Andrew L. Lamoreaux replacing Curtis Bolton as mission president.

July 24, 1853: A meeting in St. Helier, Jersey, has 337 church members (48 from France, others from the Channel Islands) from nine branches. The headquarters of the mission is set in Jersey. Andrew L. Lamoreaux has advisers like James H. Hart, Louis Bertrand and William Taylor. The missionaries are: John Oakley, chairman of the branch of the Channel Islands, John Parsons, president of the Paris branch, Thomas Link, president of the branch of Le Havre, Francis Kirby, president of the branch of the Department of Sarthe, James Wilson and Calais to Arras, Eugene Henriod in Caen, Alexander Ott John Guernsey and Alderney Harrival. At that time, most converts emigrating to the United States to join the Saints in the valleys of the Great Salt Lake. Nearly half of the approximately one hundred and thirty persons named in France emigrate. An estimated 84,000 the total number of emigrants between 1840 and 1890 Mormons, most from Europe.

1854: Amde Pichot published

End 1854: Andrew L. Lamoreaux is replaced by William Dunbar.

1855: William Dunbar decides to withdraw all missionaries in France.

November 1855: There is only one missionary in France, Thomas Link, which deals with branches in Paris, Le Havre and Grand Luce.

December 1855: Thomas Link leaves France.

1855-1859: Three successive presidents: William Dunbar, and Mark Keaton George Barnes.

December 10, 1859: Louis Bertrand , who emigrated to Utah in 1854-55, returns to Paris to preside at the French mission. The Paris branch, which has thirteen members, then chaired by E. Huber, of German origin.

April 1860: Philippe de la Mare, who emigrated to Utah in 1852, is called to preside over the mission of Channel Islands. He remained in office for two years and eight months before returning to Utah.

1861: Jules Remy publishes a book entitled In response to this book, Louis Bertrand published several articles in the Contemporary Review.

1862: Louis Bertrand brings his articles under the title

January 23, 1863: Louis Bertrand wrote to Brigham Young a letter in which he mentions the creation of "a thriving little industry in Bordeaux."

1863: Ms. Dufay publishes That year Louis Bertrand wrote to Brigham Youg: "This experience taught me three years we can expect nothing of the French infidels: they are all spiritually dead."

June 26, 1864: Louis Bertrand wrote to Brigham Young: "The experience of four years taught me that the French are probably the most skeptical people and most corrupt in Europe. That's why the Lord government today with a rod of iron. The lack of religious freedom has been the great impediment to my work in France. Introducing a new proof of my statements: Brother Renart, president of the branch of Bordeaux, was recently sentenced to six days in jail and his beautiful release was destroyed by the police of this important city. This is the freedom we now enjoy under the imperial dynasty " .

June 1864: Louis Bertrand left France to return home to Utah where he died in 1875. The French mission was closed. The Channel Islands are under the jurisdiction of the British mission.

1902-1914

1902 or 1903: Francis M. Lyman of the Quorum of Twelve , France to rededicate the preaching of the Gospel.

1907: A second edition of the Book of Mormon is published in Zurich by Serge Ballif (30,000 copies).

1908: 28 sections of the Doctrine and Covenants are translated and printed by AA Ramseyer. Lyon and Lille are open to the preaching of the Gospel under the direction of Swiss and Dutch missions.

1909: Opening of Nmes to the preaching of the Gospel.

1911: Opening of Paris to the preaching of the Gospel.

October 15, 1912: Reopening of the French mission. It covers all French-speaking European has 422 church members, including twenty-nine former. Edgar B. Brossard, aged 23, presided over fifteen missionaries. The mission headquarters is established in Paris.

1912: Opening of Amiens and Troyes to preaching the Gospel.

1913: 62 baptisms. Benjamin F. Howells replaces Edgar B. Brossard who has health problems.

1914: Benjamin F. Howells directs the withdrawal of missionaries from France, Switzerland and Belgium. The first left France on August 18. Branches close with the departure of the missionaries and the beginning of the war.

Between the wars, Alsace and Franche-Comt are under the jurisdiction of the Swiss-Austrian Mission.

1924-1940

1924: Reopening of the French mission with Russell H. Blood as president. The mission headquarters moved to Geneva. The mission has about 200 members. In May, there are forty-seven missionaries.

1924-1925: Opening of Lille and Lyon to the preaching of the Gospel.

1925: Ernest C. Rossiter is the new mission president. Six new cities are opened to the preaching of the Gospel.

November 3, 1926: In Lyon, Venus R. Rossiter, wife of the mission president, organizes, with six sisters, the first Relief Society in France. The next will be held shortly after at Besancon.

1928: The Mission has 591 members and fifty-three missionaries.

September 28, 1928: Ernest C. Rossiter is replaced by Peter Rulon Christensen, a 27 year old missionary arrived in July 1926. The mission headquarters is located at 55 Oak Road in Geneva.

November 1928: It publishes a magazine once known as

1928-1929: A report from the slides on "The Mormons in Utah" circulates in Marseille, Montpellier, Nimes, Lyon, Grenoble and St. Etienne, Paris, Orleans, Tours and Nantes, each time with an audience of 60 to 350.

December 31, 1929: Golden LeGrand Woolf replaces Peter Rulon Christensen returned to the United States where he died of pneumonia at age 29. The Mission has 645 members and fifty-eight missionaries. At that time, cities open to the preaching of the Gospel are: Besancon, Beziers, Grenoble, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Orleans, Paris and Tours, divided into three districts: Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

1930: The towns of Blois, Lille, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Angouleme, Perigueux and Limoges are open to the preaching of the Gospel. France has forty-seven members of the Church.

1930-31: The missionaries are present in Angouleme, Arles, Besanon, Bziers, Blois, Bordeaux, Dijon, Grenoble, La Rochelle, Limoges, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nimes, Orleans, Paris, Perigueux, Roanne, Saint- Etienne, Tours and Valence. The mission headquarters was transferred to Paris. Translation of the book Articles of Faith by James Talmage (1862-1933), Quorum of the Twelve. The Star of the French Mission is led to five hundred copies a month. Charles Cestre, professor of American literature at the Sorbonne , wrote articles on the Church in newspapers and in the Larousse Encyclopedia.

1931: Closure of Dijon, Limoges and Roanne.

1933: The Mission has 799 members and forty-five missionaries.

July 30, 1933: Leaving Golden LeGrand Woolf is replaced by Joseph Daniel Lang.

1934: Following the economic crisis suffered by the United States, the number of missionaries has increased to fourteen. The lack of missionaries forced to close the districts of Bordeaux and Marseille. Local members are asked to assist in the preaching work.

1936: President Frederick Octavius Ursenbach transfers the Mission Office in Liege, Belgium. The Mission has 843 members and fourteen missionaries. In June, a team composed of basketball missionaries sensation by beating the Belgian champions who will participate in Berlin Olympics a few weeks later.

May 25-June 4, 1937: In Paris, the Hotel des Champs-Elysees, takes the annual conference of presidents of European missions.

1938: Joseph Evans replaces Ephraim Frederick Octavius Ursenbach. The Mission has 856 members and thirty-six missionaries.

1939: The Mission has 864 members and forty-three missionaries.

September 3, 1939: In front of the advancing German troops, missionaries are instructed to head for the port towns to evacuate.

October 26, 1939: Ephraim Joseph Evans and his wife left France in Bordeaux by embarking on the SS Washington.

1939: Gaston Chapuis Only in France is still several months to settle the affairs of the French mission, keep in touch with members of the Church and edit

August 11, 1940: One last sacrament meeting held in Paris with Gaston Chappuis.

August 1940: Gaston Chappuis left France with his wife and returned to New York via Lisbon. Before his departure, he encourages Leon Fargier, branch president of Valencia, his best work in the office of former on French soil. France has seventy-five members of the Church.

1940-1945

During the occupation and before the reopening of the mission, Leon Fargier, accompanied by his wife, visiting branches and takes care of church members. He teaches, exhorts, administers the sacrament, baptize, confirm, blessed, ordered the offices of the priesthood of Aaron. Throughout this period, Leon Fargier toured France by train, bicycle or on foot to support the Saints. He will travel to Besanon, Paris, Nimes, Saint Florent, Saint-Etienne, Grenoble, Montrigaud, Lyon, Menies, Marseille, Saint-Julien (Gard) Saint-Die, Tarbes. A network of sisters allows him to maintain contact with the various branches .

1 July 1941: front-page headline: "Mr. Fargier, only Mormon pastor of the free zone has christened its fifteen flocks in the municipal pool in Grenoble. Interior page, it extends its activities with supporting photographs and the Church in general. The article was signed Merry Bromberger.

February 2, 1944: In Paris, Leon Fargier leads a sacrament meeting, the first since the departure of Gaston Chappuis. He blessed the sick and tired sisters privations of war.

December 1944: The U.S. military Latter Day Saints arrive in Paris and made contact with members of the Church.

1946-1969

May 10, 1946: James L. Barker, university and world-renowned linguist, arrived in Paris as the new president of the French mission.

May 12, 1946: Meeting in Paris. James L. Barker opened the mission with headquarters at 8, Place Malesherbes in Paris ^(seventeenth arrondissement). The mission has 754 members and eleven missionaries.

June 1946: The mission of thirty-seven missionaries.

1 July 1946: The branches of Strasbourg and Mulhouse are again part of the French mission. The mission comprises four districts: Strasbourg, Switzerland, Belgium and the south.

Current 1946: An agreement was reached with the French Society of microfilm to microfilm archives of the state-civil.

November 17, 1946: Arrival of eleven missionaries, including two sisters. All the brothers are former soldiers who fought in the Pacific, China and France.

December 1946: Meeting of presidents of district in Paris with the participation of Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994), member of the Twelve Apostles College and future Secretary of Agriculture of the United States (1953-1961) and Alma Sonne (1884-1977), Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve. Paul Kayser is president of the district of Strasbourg. Fargier Leon is president of the South District. France has seventy members of the Church.

End 1947: James L. Barker decides to transfer the mission headquarters in Geneva.

1948: Eighty missionaries arrived in francophone Europe. Forty-three people join the church.

1949: Start of the microfilm archives of the State-Civil in Paris. The magazine of the Church (The Star), is edited again. Seventy people joined the church. James L. Barker has initiated a program of large-scale by a series of public lectures and hours of radio airplay with recordings of the Tabernacle Choir , has created a vocal quartet of missionaries that occurs in about thirty Cities with speeches and testimony in support among the missionaries and formed a basketball team that won ninety per cent of matches throughout France.

1948 and 1949: James L. Barker gave a series of seventy public lectures on the Church in the country.

Between 1946 and 1950: Creation of the districts of Bordeaux and Lyon.

April 1950: Golden LeGrand Woolf returns to chair the task.

1950: 86 people joined the church. The Mission has a thousand members.

1951: 116 people joined the church.

July 1952: Visit of David O. McKay (1873-1970), President of the Church. A conference is held Salle Pleyel in Paris.

September 1952: The French government, after two years of investigation of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Interior, to grant the Church the status of association.

1952: In Paris, the church purchased a mansion at 3 rue de Lota (XVI ^e arrondissement), which became the headquarters of the French mission. Because of the Korean War, the number of missionaries going from 149 to 95. In Lyon, appearance of the third edition of the Book of Mormon.

1953: Arrival of Harold W. Lee, the new mission president.

September 1955: Ceremonies of the consecration of the temple of Zollikofen near Bern in Switzerland, which operates in France. The 379 singers of the Tabernacle Choir occur before three thousand spectators at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.

June 1956: a new hymnal is published in French.

1958: Milton L. Christensen chairs the mission. The first complete edition of Doctrine and Covenants in French, translated by Roger L. Dock, is published in Lyon by the French mission. Translation of the Pearl of Great Price. 200 people joined the church.

November 1959: Edgar B. Brossard returns to chair the task.

End 1959: France has 1909 members of the Church.

1960: On 28 October an agreement was signed between the Archives of France and the Genealogical Society of Utah. 982 people joined the church. At the end of the year, France has 3156 members.

1961: Creation of the French mission in the East that includes the south-eastern France. It will be headed up the creation of the stake in Geneva, Henry D. Moyle, son (1961-1964), Alfred J. Martin (1964-1967), Joseph F. Nelson (1967-1970), Charles Didier (1970-1973), Sidney F. Sager (1973-1976), O. James Stevens (1976-1979), David J. Bennion (1979-1982) and R. Bay Hutchings (1982-1984).

The successors of Edgar B. Brossard as President of the French mission will be until the establishment of the stake in Paris, Rulon T. Hinckley (1961-1964), Cecil E. Hart (1964-1967), H. Duane Anderson (1967-1968), B. Smith Griffin (1969-1972), Willis D. Waite (1972-1975) and Jack T. Fuller (1975-1978).

1962: Fourth edition of the Book of Mormon after the revision of Marcel Kahne, who as a young missionary and editor of The Star, also revises Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price.

1963: Creation of the Franco-Belgian encompassing the north and north-eastern France. It will be headed up the creation of the stake in Brussels by Joseph T. Edmunds (1963-1966), James D. Paramore (1966-1969), Thomas H. Brown (1969-1972), Donald K. Barton (1972-1975), Virgil Parker (1975-1977) and James S. Arrigoni (1977-1980).

December 10, 1965: Consecration of Bordeaux by Howard W. Hunter of the Quorum of the Twelve. This is the first church built on French soil.

End 1967: Opening of Bayonne Mission (Paris) to the preaching of the Gospel.

1970-2000

1970: The French mission to the East takes the name of Franco-Swiss mission. France has ten thousand members of the Church.

1970-71: Beginning of the seminar program and the institute in France. The Genealogical Society of Utah began the filming of the French registry.

1974: twenty-nine French are in full-time mission. The French mission is now called French mission to Paris, the Franco-Swiss was renamed Swiss Mission in Geneva and the Franco-Belgian became the Belgian mission in Brussels. Fifth edition of the Book of Mormon.

1 July 1975: Opening of the Mission of Toulouse, with George W. Broschinsky as president. Any successor Max Wheelwright and R. Hutchings Bay before the close of the mission in 1983. France has about 600 missionaries.

1975 to 1978: Raymond Baudin chairs the Mission Tahiti Papeete.

November 16, 1975: The first pile of France, the pile of Paris, was created at Versailles, with Gerard Giraud-Carrier as President, Serge and Michel Convers Cunche as advisors and Daniel Devillard as patriarch. Until then Gerard Giraud-Carrier was president of the district of Paris, who succeeded Robert Chollet (1970-1975), Jean Lembl (1968-1970), Andr Legroux, Jean Arnaud and James S. Arrigoni.

31 July and 1 August 1976: conference area at the Palais des Congres de Paris, in the presence of Spencer W. Kimball (1895-1985), President of the Church, N. Eldon Tanner (1898-1982), Counselor in the First Presidency, Thomas S. Monson of the Quorum of Twelve, Robert D. Hales, Assistant to the Twelve and Charles Didier , Regional Administrator. This conference brings together the saints of French-speaking Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and French-speaking Switzerland.

1977: Sixth edition of the Book of Mormon.

20 ffrier 1977: Creation of the pile of Brussels, which includes parts of France, with Joseph Scheen as chairman, and Marcel Dupuis Willy Kahne as advisers.

May 15, 1980: Creation of the pile of Nice, with Michel as president Paya, Landau and Patrick Norman Tree as advisers.

1981: Gerard Giraud-Carrier is known as a regional representative of the Twelve. It will be noted in 1988. Seventh edition of the Book of Mormon.

June 20, 1982: Creation of the stake in Geneva, which includes parts of France, with Denis Bonny as president, and Michel Peter Brenders Clavian as advisers.

1983: The mission of Toulouse is dissolved. Its perimeter is divided between the mission of Paris and Geneva mission.

April 24, 1983: Creation of the pile of Nancy, with Keith Bishop as chairman, Roger Vincent and Lorenzon Adolphe Yvon Vincent as advisers and as patriarch. Until then Keith Bishop was president of the district of Nancy, who succeeded Manuel Loureno, Roger Vincent, Yvon Vincent, Claude Armand and Arthur Roll.

1983 to 1986: Christian Euvrard chairs the Italian mission in Milan.

27-29 October 1983: Consecration of the Temple of Tahiti, Papeete, French Polynesia.

1985 to 1988: Michel Paya chairs the Spanish mission in Madrid.

End 1985: France has 13,598 church members.

1987: On June 29, an amendment to the Agreement of 28 October 1960 between the Archives of France and Genealogical Society of Utah was signed in Paris between the Director of the Archives of France and Vice-President of the Genealogical Society of Utah. This endorsement is approved by a decree of September 28 published in the Official Gazette of the French Republic on November 20. Euvrard Christian is called as a regional representative of the Twelve. It will be noted in 1990.

January 17, 1988: Creation of the pile of Lille, with Dominique Degrave as president.

1988 to 1991: Gerard Giraud-Carrier chairs the mission of the Mascarene Islands.

1989: Opening of the Mission of Bordeaux, with Neil L. Andersen as president. Any successor Oveson Richard, Charles and Gerald R. Cunot Williams, before the closure of the mission in 2001.

September 9, 1990: Creation of the pile of Lyon, with Peter Brenders as president.

June 11, 1991: The Tabernacle Choir occurs in Strasbourg.

1 July 1991: Opening of the Mission of Marseille.

1991 to 1994: Pierre Euvrard chairs the mission of the Mascarene Islands.

March 8, 1992: Creation of the stake in Paris-Est, with Dominique Calmels as president.

May 24, 1992: Creation of the pile of Bordeaux, with Jacques Simonet as president, Joel Sere-Couteight Coppens and Sylvain Raymond Baudin as advisers and as patriarch. Until then Theophilus Plante was president of the district of Bordeaux, who succeeded Jean-Luc Magr Robert Sorhatz (1985-1987), Jean-Paul Gurinot, Jacques Simonet, Salarnier Andr (1978-1981), Paul Bennasar (1975 -1978), Bertin Farel (1968-1975), Michel Gengembre (1964-1968) and Jean-Claude Roux (1961-1964).

1995: Alain Petion authority becomes interregional. It will increase in 2003.

1995 to 1998: Charles Cunot chairs the French mission of Bordeaux. Roberto Tavella chairs the Congo mission in Kinshasa.

End 1996: France has 28,454 church members.

April 1997: Alain Petion becomes the third member college of seventy. It will increase in 2003.

June 4, 1998: The President of the Church, Gordon B. Hinckley , holds meetings at Versailles and Paris.

1998: In June, the Tabernacle Choir occurs in Marseille. New Edition of Book of Mormon , the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price , after a complete re-translation of Marcel Kahne (followed by a review of a peer-reviewed).

Late 1999: France has 30,541 church members.

2001-2009

July 2001: The mission of Bordeaux and Marseille's mission is dissolved to form the mission of Toulouse.

September 22, 2002: Creation of the pile of Toulouse, with Jean-Paul Gurinot as president, Jose Ortega and Jean-Paul Perez as advisors and Jean-Pierre Cuvelier as patriarch.

December 14, 2003: Creation of the pile of Angers, with Mary as president Alain Herv and Jean-Yves Bousseau Raveneau as advisers.

May 2004: New president's visit to the Church, Gordon B. Hinckley , in Paris.

April 2006: Michel Paya interregional and authority becomes the third member college of seventy.

April 2007: Gerald Causse interregional and authority becomes the third member college of seventy. It is the sixth to become either French regional representative of the Twelve, or interregional authority, after Gerard Giraud-Carrier, Christian Euvrard , Jacques Faudin Alain Petion and Michel Paya.

October 2007: Lieutenant George Stephen became the first German-relay Chaplaincy holy of days in the French Army. His recommendation for the Army Protestant Chaplaincy will be effective until October 2008.

April 5, 2008: Gerald Causse becomes a member of the First Quorum of the seventy , becoming a General Authority of the Church. It is the first French in the history of the Church to become a General Authority.

July 4, 2009: The Official Journal reports the new status of the Church became a religious association, Act 1905.

Related articles

• Louis Auguste Bertrand
• John Taylor
• Chronology of Mormonism

Sources and bibliography

• Curtis Bolton article in The Star of Deseret in December 1851.
• Louis Bertrand , Memoirs of a Mormon, Collection Hetzel , in Dentu, Paris, 1862.
• Diary of Leo Fargier in local pages of The Star in August 1979, September 1979 and November 1979.
• Jean Lembl, God and the French: the Latter-day Saints francophone Ensign Publishing, Paris, 1986, foreword by David Bitton.
• Christian Euvrard , Louis Auguste Bertrand (1808-1875), journalist and socialist pioneer Mormon, Paris, 2005, Christian Euvrard, ISBN 2-9523565-0-5.
• 2003 Church Almanac, Deseret News, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, 2007.
• Ensign, April 1979, News of the Church, p. 4-6; June 1979 News of the Church, p. 15-16; September 1979, News of the Church, p. 1-5; November 1979, News of the Church, p. 15-16; September 1980, News of the Church, p. 1-2; Ensign, November 1997, News, p. 8-10; August 1998, News, p. 8-10.
• Christian Euvrard , 160 years of Mormonism in France
• History of Mormonism in France

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