The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Denomination·Founded 1935 CE·Estimates before the 2008 raid ran to around 10,000 members. The church publishes nothing, many members have left, and no current figure is reliable.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints → The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

The recordCherish Families — support in Short Creek, founded by people who grew up there

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W Figure of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Warren Jeffs, prophet since 2002.

He succeeded his father Rulon, expelled hundreds of men and reassigned their families, and was convicted in Texas in 2011 of sexually assaulting two children. He still holds the office from prison.

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Names & titlesThe Prophet; Rulon Jeffs; since 2002, Warren Jeffs
DomainRevelation, marriage, property, and membership
Depicted asFormal photographs; his recorded voice is played in homes
StandingHolds the keys of the priesthood alone. He has directed the church from a Texas prison since 2011
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Warren Jeffs was his father's school principal and secretary before succeeding him as prophet in September 2002. He closed the community school, expelled men and reassigned their families, moved a core group to the newly built YFZ Ranch in Texas, and fled arrest in 2005, spending a year on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. Convicted in Utah in 2007 as an accomplice to rape and released when that conviction was overturned in 2010, he was retried in Texas and convicted on 4 August 2011 of sexually assaulting a twelve-year-old and a fifteen-year-old, and sentenced on 9 August to life plus twenty years. He continues to issue revelations from prison and remains the prophet to those who have stayed.

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