Notable Differences Between Districts and Stakes
A district has a function analogous to a stake, but is organized where there are too few members to organize a stake. Its relationship to a stake is similar to the relationship between a ward and a branch. Once the membership in a district achieves sufficient numbers, it may be reorganized as a stake. Districts differ from stakes in the following ways:
- A district does not have its own patriarch. Members are assigned to the nearest stake patriarch.
- Districts do not have a High Priests Quorum. The High Priests Quorum is a stake organization. Any men holding the office of high priest who live in a district meet with the local Elders Quorum. Men residing in a district may not be ordained to the priesthood office of high priest.
- Districts are composed of branches only and cannot have wards, regardless of the size of the branches.
- The presiding authority in a district is the mission president; members of the mission presidency conduct temple recommend, patriarchal blessing, Melchizedek priesthood ordination, and missionary qualification interviews, not members of the district presidency.
- The district presidency serves as a representative of the mission presidency since many missions have multiple districts and the mission presidency may live at a great distance from the district itself.
- In many very small and remote districts, some male missionaries serve as branch presidents or in other leadership positions at the local and district levels.
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