Duties Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) effectively discontinued the office of Presiding Patriarch in 1979, without publishing any known revelation to that effect. Until that time, the role and duties of the office had varied. The Presiding Patriarch sometime appointed local patriarchs in the stakes of the Church and presided over them as a loose "Quorum of Patriarchs." Like the local Patriarchs, the Presiding Patriarch was also empowered to give patriarchal blessings.
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