Mormon Pacific Historical Society
Keywords
Tongan government, Church history, missionary work
Abstract
The Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific is known as the country with the highest percentage of Latter-day Saints in the world. Out of a population of about 100,000 people in the Kingdom about 60,000 are baptized members of the Church according to Leitoni Tupou, recently released president of the Tongan mission. Of that number he says about 30,000 are active, 30,000 are less active and the other 40,000 haven’t been baptized yet. Tongan government statistics give lower figures but the fact that there are 166 congregations meeting in 106 chapels organized into 19 stakes (soon to be 21) indicates that the Church is a strong force in the Kingdom. The mission in Tonga has over 200 missionaries and 30 senior couples to work with the less active and non-members.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Moffat, Riley
(2016)
"LDS Church History Sites in the Kingdom of Tonga,"
Mormon Pacific Historical Society: Vol. 37, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mphs/vol37/iss1/7
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