The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Delaware

As of December 31, 2019, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported 5,634 members in two stakes, and 12 congregations (10 wards and two branches) and three Family History Centers, in Delaware.[1]

State of Delaware within the United States

History

Missionaries for LDS Church arrived in Delaware in 1837.[2]

Block teaching began in 1941 among some 16 LDS families meetings began May 4, and the Wilmington branch was organized September 28, 1941. The branch, with 9 adults and 10 children, continued with little growth for the next decade. In 1950, some 63 attended a branch party at the home of the branch president. The Salisbury Branch was organized in 1953. The Dover Branch was organized later that decade.[3]

In 2010, Delaware member Bruce Winn, CEO of 1,100 employees at the Corporation Service Co., left the company to serve as a mission president and, later, as the first temple president of the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple.[4]

In 2020, the LDS Church canceled services and other public gatherings indefinitely in response to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.[5]

Membership history
Year LDS Membership
1941 19
1960 400
1974 1,350
1980 1,767
1990 3,178
1999 3,730
2008 4,716

Stakes

In 1960, the Philadelphia Stake was created which included Delaware congregations. On December 8, 1974, the Wilmington Delaware Stake was created covering the Delaware and nearby areas in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. On November 18, 1979, the New Jersey Wards and branches of the Wilmington Stake were organized as the Pitman New Jersey Stake.

On June 18, 2006, William W. John, programs manager at DuPont, became stake president for the Wilmington Delaware Stake.[6]

On April 12, 2012, The Dover Delaware stake (Delaware's second) was created from the Wilmington Delaware Stake.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Facts and Statistics Delaware". www.newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  2. "Facts and Statistics", Church News, 2020. Retrieved on 1 April 2020.
  3. Helen Candland Stark, The L.D.S. Church in Delaware: A Book of Remembrance,1966.
  4. Shaw, Julie. "Leadership announced for new Mormon temple", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 21 June 2016. Retrieved on 1 April 2020.
  5. Lovett, Ian. "Mormon Church Cancels Services World-Wide Amid Coronavirus Crisis", The Wall Street Journal, 12 March 2020. Retrieved on 31 March 2020.
  6. "New Stake Presidents", Church News. July 29, 2006.
  7. "New Stake Presidents", Church News, May 5, 2012.
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