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    Serbia

    369

    Total Church Membership

    1-in-

    3

    Congregations

    0 Wards
    3 Branches

    2

    FamilySearch Centers

    2

    History

    Mischa Markow, a convert from Vojvodina, briefly preached in Beograd and Zrenjanin in 1899, but the first Church member to settle in Serbia was Eviza Arbić Vujičić, who moved to Beograd in 1918 after being baptized in Budapest, Hungary. In part through Vujičić’s efforts to help teach the gospel, in 1933 Matej Spaček became the first person baptized in Serbia.

    The Church did not become fully established in Serbia, however, until the 1970s and 1980s. Krešimir Ćosić, who had joined the Church at Brigham Young University, helped spread the gospel during his basketball career in Yugoslavia. In Beograd, Radmila Ranović became the first person living in Yugoslavia to serve a full-time mission. The first branch in Serbia was organized in Beograd in 1983, shortly after Ranović’s return.

    The branch developed into a district by 1992 as the work began to spread beyond Beograd. In their branches and in their own lives, Latter-day Saints in Serbia followed Christ’s call to build “upon the foundation of my gospel and my rock” as a protection against evil (Doctrine and Covenants 18:5). Over the following decade, as Saints in Serbia witnessed warfare and endured bombing campaigns, their fellow Saints around Europe worked to deliver aid to their country. By 2002 both proselytizing and humanitarian missionaries had returned to Serbia to serve in the branches in Beograd, Novi Sad, and Sremska Mitrovica.

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    Africa

    Total Church Membership

    Members
    Congregations

    791,837

    Members

    2,559

    Congregations

    Missions

    40Missions

    FamilySearch Centers

    421

    Temples

    6Temples

    Asia

    Total Church Membership

    Members
    Congregations

    1,281,560

    Members

    2,103

    Congregations

    Missions

    45Missions

    FamilySearch Centers

    368

    Temples

    8Temples

    Europe

    Total Church Membership

    Members
    Congregations

    503,692

    Members

    1,318

    Congregations

    Missions

    36Missions

    FamilySearch Centers

    660

    Temples

    14Temples

    North America

    Total Church Membership

    Members
    Congregations

    9,551,107

    Members

    18,426

    Congregations

    Missions

    175Missions

    FamilySearch Centers

    2,819

    Temples

    113Temples

    Oceania (Pacific)

    Total Church Membership

    Members
    Congregations

    591,950

    Members

    1,308

    Congregations

    Missions

    18Missions

    FamilySearch Centers

    317

    Temples

    11Temples

    South America

    Total Church Membership

    Members
    Congregations

    4,269,273

    Members

    5,616

    Congregations

    Missions

    97Missions

    FamilySearch Centers

    1,119

    Temples

    24Temples