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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Peru

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7722966 ↗
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Peru refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Peru. The church's first branch in the country was established in 1956. Since then, the LDS Church in Peru has grown to more than 600,000 members in 809 congregations. Peru ranks as having the 2nd most members of the LDS Church in South America, behind Brazil, and the 5th most of countries worldwide. In addition, Peru has the third most LDS Church members per capita in South America, behind Chile and Uruguay.

History

The church's first official branch in Peru was organized in July 1956.

Three native Peruvian elders were assassinated by militant groups in the early 1990s: Manuel Antonio Hidalgo and Christian Andreani Ugarte, who were killed in August 1990, and Oscar Zapata, who was killed in March 1991. Nonetheless, unlike Pentecostals and Adventists, who played critical roles in Peruvian politics of the day, the LDS Church remained relatively disengaged with the war.

At the end of 1993, one study found that there were around 234,000 Latter-day Saint adherents in Peru. This same study also found that, in Peru, there were only about 4,500 adherents per stake, the lowest density of all of the Latin American countries studied (for comparison, the highest was Colombia, which was found to have 7,500 adherents per stake).

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This entry incorporates text from “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Peru” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.