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“Statistical Report 1986,” Ensign, May 1987, 21

Church Units

• Number of stakes 1,622

• Number of districts 346

• Number of missions 193

• Number of wards 10,527

• Number of branches in stakes 2,792

• Number of branches in missions 2,070

• Number of sovereign countries with organized wards or branches 98

• Number of territories, colonies, and possessions with organized wards or branches 24

(These statistics reflect an increase of 40 stakes and 379 wards and branches during 1986.)

Church Membership

• Total membership at the close of 1986 6,170,000

Church Growth During 1986

• Increase in Children of Record 93,000

• Children of Record baptized 72,000

• Converts baptized 216,210

Priesthood

• Adult males with Melchizedek Priesthood 745,000

• Adult males and young men with Aaronic Priesthood 844,000

Missionaries

• Full-time missionaries 31,803

Prominent Members Who Have Passed Away Since Last April

Elder A. Theodore Tuttle, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy; Elder Henry D. Taylor, an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy; Elder James A. Cullimore, an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy; Elder O. Leslie Stone, an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy; May J. Dyer, widow of Elder Alvin R. Dyer, former Counselor in the First Presidency and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy; Beverly J. Call, wife of Elder Waldo P. Call of the First Quorum of the Seventy; G. Carlos Smith, Jr., former general superintendent of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association.