Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
Seventy (Latter Day Saints)
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Seventy (Latter Day Saints)
Seventy
is a
priesthood
office in the
Melchizedek priesthood
of several denominations within the
Latter Day Saint movement
, including
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(LDS Church). Traditionally, a
Latter Day Saint
holding this priesthood office is a "traveling minister" and an "especial witness" of
Jesus Christ
, charged with the mission of preaching the gospel to the entire world under the direction of the Twelve
Apostles
. Latter Day Saints teach that the office of seventy was anciently conferred upon the
seventy disciples
mentioned in the
Gospel of Luke
. Multiple individuals holding the office of seventy are referred to collectively as "seventies".
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License