Overall membership rose by 141,737 to 16,805,400, according to 2021 statistics released Saturday as part of the faith’s 192nd Annual General Conference, a 0.8% bump (from 16,663,663).

In its 195-year history, general conference has only been canceled twice. First, in 1846 when the church moved across the United States via handcarts to Utah, and again in October 1957 when there ...