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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. 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]
The temple will occupy part of a Vorlage:Convert Church-owned site near the ring road skirting the northeast section of Rome.[2] 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,[3] 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]
See also
- List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region
- Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints)
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Notes
Vorlage:List LDS Temple Europe
- ↑ "Rome LDS Temple, Four Others Announced," Deseret News, October 4, 2008.
- ↑ New Temple Site Locations Announced, LDS.org, 7 October 2008.
- ↑ a b "Vatican rules LDS baptisms 'invalid'," World Wide Religious News, July 18, 2001.
- ↑ "Two Questions - Mormon socio-political values and prior religious affiliations of Mormon converts," Mormon Social Science Association.