Wikipedia's article on Official Declaration 2 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, community-edited. Reliable for the church's 8 June 1978 announcement lifting its restriction, in place since 1852, on the ordination of Black members to the priesthood and their full participation in temple ordinances. The article situates the announcement against the church's own recent plans for a temple in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where, in the article's account, church leaders had come to recognize that enforcing a race-based restriction was nearly impossible in a country of extensive racial mixing.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Declaration_2
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3, on a dated church announcement whose text is itself canonized scripture within the tradition; the date and content are not contested. NotesUsed for the 1978 declaration ending the priesthood and temple restriction, the most recent event on the tradition's own map by eighteen years.
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