Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word RIGDONITE
RIGDONITE
Definitions of RIGDONITE
- (historical) A member of the Latter-day Saint movement who accepted Sidney Rigdon as the successor in the church presidency to the movement's founder, Joseph Smith Jr.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using RIGDONITE in a Sentence
- In 1845, following the succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement, Sidney Rigdon (one of the three main contenders along with James Strang and Brigham Young for leadership of the Latter Day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith) took his followers to Pennsylvania and formed a Rigdonite Mormon settlement at Greencastle.
- The church is sometimes referred to as a "Bickertonite" or "Rigdonite" organization by non-members, and occasionally used in scholarly works to distinguish from other denominations with similar names.
- Winchester was the youngest adult member of Zion's Camp, an original member of the first Quorum of the Seventy, editor of the first independent Mormon periodical, the Gospel Reflector, president of a large branch of the church in Philadelphia, a zealous missionary who baptized thousands, a Rigdonite Apostle, and ultimately a dissenter who repudiated Mormonism altogether.
- After 1844, McLellin joined for a short time multiple sects, including the Rigdonite, Strangite, Whitmerite and Hedrickite sects, each of which recognized his apostleship.
- Like its parent church, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ was a Rigdonite and Bickertonite organization: it traced the claim of succession to Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith through Sidney Rigdon and William Bickerton.
- Like its parent church, the Primitive Church of Jesus Christ was a Rigdonite and Bickertonite organization: it traced its claim of succession to Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith through Sidney Rigdon and William Bickerton.
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