After the succession crisis of 1844, not every member of the Church chose to sustain and follow Brigham Young in the quorum of the 12 apostles, and many of these

members eventually formed or joined alternative restoration movements which became

separate distinct and independent churches from one another. In fact, over the last 180 years,

there have actually been hundreds of churches that have branched off from the same Joseph Smith era restoration trunk.

Today on Church History Matters, for reasons we will explain,

Casey and I have chosen to consider three such restoration branches,

namely the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or

Strangites, the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Josephites, today known as the Community of Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ or Bickertonites.

Our focus will primarily be on the question of how succession has developed and how it works today in each of these

movements.

I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths and today Casey and I dive into

our ninth episode in this series dealing with succession in the presidency.

Now let's get into it.

Hello Casey. Hello Scott, how are you? Doing great. I'm excited to dig in today to some really interesting stuff. Yeah, this is technically still part of succession. But we've kind of wrapped up succession in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And now we're doing something that I have wanted to do for a really long time which is talk about some of our

restoration cousins, some of our sister faiths in the movement basically.

So there's a lot of them out there.

Yeah, and there's been a lot of our listeners who have emailed us and said we'd love to learn more about succession and then the branches of the restoration as well.

And that's kind of what got us moving in this direction was our listener feedback to do this series which I think has been really fun so far.

Yeah. Now we're at that point where yeah we want to start talking about those other branches of the restoration now that we've covered ours all the way up through President Nelson.

Yeah. So tell us kind of where we're going to go. How's it going to work?

Let's start with this. If you were to give me a ballpark figure of how many churches,

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