- Alternate Names
- Bishoprick
Bishopric
Summary
Initially referred to a bishop’s ecclesiastical jurisdiction, but eventually described the ecclesiastical body comprising the bishop and his assistants, or counselors. John Corrill and Isaac Morley were called as assistants to Bishop Edward Partridge in 1831. An 1835 revelation named the bishopric as the presidency of the lesser priesthood. That same year, JS taught that the bishop and his counselors were “set over her [Zion’s] temporal matters” and that the high council was “organized expressly to administer in all her spiritual matters.” The term bishopric was also used in the 1830s to describe priesthood positions generally, as in, for example, the idea that one could have his bishopric taken from him. See also “Bishop.”
Links
- History, 1838–1856, volume A-1 [23 December 1805–30 August 1834]
- Account of Meetings, Revelation, and Blessing, 5–6 December 1834
- Appendix 2: Letter to the Saints Scattered Abroad, June 1835
- Blessing to Newel K. Whitney, 7 October 1835
- Celebration of the 4th of July, August 1838
- Charges against Missouri Conference Preferred to Joseph Smith, circa March 1832
- Instruction on Priesthood, between circa 1 March and circa 4 May 1835 [D&C 107]
- Journal, 1832–1834
- Journal, 1835–1836
- Journal, March–September 1838
- Letter from Thomas B. Marsh, 15 February 1838
- Letter from William W. Phelps, 7 July 1837
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June 1833
- Letter to John Corrill and the Church in Missouri, 4 September 1837
- Letter to Lyman Wight and Others, 16 August 1834
- Letters to John Burk, Sally Waterman Phelps, and Almira Mack Scobey, 1–2 June 1835
- Minutes and Blessings, 21 February 1835
- Minutes, 12 February 1836
- Minutes, 13 January 1836
- Minutes, 15 January 1836
- Minutes, 16 March 1835
- Minutes, 17 August 1835
- Minutes, 3 September 1837
- Minutes, 30 March 1836
- Minutes, 7 November 1837
- Minutes, circa 1 May 1832
- Plat of the City of Zion, circa Early June–25 June 1833
- Revelation Book 1
- Revelation, 1 August 1831 [D&C 58]
- Revelation, 11 April 1838 [D&C 114]
- Revelation, 26 April 1832 [D&C 82]
- Revelation, 26 April 1838 [D&C 115]
- Revelation, 4 September 1837
- Revelation, between circa 8 and circa 24 March 1832
- Revelation, circa June 1835 [D&C 68]
- Revelations printed in Evening and Morning Star, January 1835–June 1836
- Revised Plan of the House of the Lord, circa 10 August–circa 4 September 1833
- Visions, 21 January 1836 [D&C 137]