Vorlage:LDS Temple/Rome Italy Temple Vorlage:Future building
On October 4, 2008, Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that a temple would be built in Rome, Italy. According to an article in the church-owned Deseret News, the temple will likely serve church members in Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia, as well as the 22,000 Italian church members. [1]
According to the Deseret News article, speculation on possible sites for the temple includes a church-owned parcel of land near a freeway on the northeast side of the city. No dates have been announced for a groundbreaking.
The announcement of an LDS temple in Rome is notable due to Rome's status as the international headquarters of the Catholic Church. Although the LDS Church continues to work with Catholic organizations such as Catholic Charities to perform humanitarian assistance projects [2], relations between the two churches have been strained in recent years. In 2001, the Catholic Church announced that LDS baptisms were invalid [3] and that LDS converts to Catholicism would require rebaptism. (The LDS Church requires rebaptism of all converts to the faith.) In 2008 the Vatican singled-out the LDS church in ordering Catholic dioceses to not allow LDS genealogical societies to access parish records. Although statistics are not easily come by, it is thought that the majority of converts to Mormonism worldwide are former Catholics [4], another issue that strains the relationship between the two faiths.
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Vorlage:List LDS Temple Europe
- ↑ "Rome LDS Temple, Four Others Announced," Deseret News, October 4, 2008. <http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700264138,00.html>
- ↑ http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=5920&sec=16&cont=5
- ↑ ""Vatican rules LDS baptisms 'invalid'" World Wide Religious News, July 18, 2001, http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=5920&sec=16&cont=5
- ↑ "Two Questions - Mormon socio-political values and prior religious affiliations of Mormon converts," Mormon Social Science Association, http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/?q=node/51