Prophet, seer, and revelator

Prophet, seer, and revelator (English prophet, seer, revelator and ) is an ecclesiastical title in the hierarchy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. It is used for the President of the Church and his counselors in the First Presidency ( First Presidency ), in which it is the highest authority within the management structure of the Church, and for the members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ). The award of the title is confirmed regularly for all concerned persons, including the President by the members of the church.

The term " prophet, seer and revelator " includes for the winner of the title in the understanding of the Church the role of a prophet in the sense of teaching the existing knowledge, a seer in the sense of recognition of hidden knowledge, and a revelator for the purposes of announcing new knowledge. The title goes back to revelations of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. In 1836, a year after the establishment of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, he determined that the members of the Quorum of the First Presidency and should be regarded by the Church as a prophet, seer, and revelator.

The owner of the currently defunct Office of the Assistant to the President, which was created by Joseph Smith and awarded in the history of the Church in a total of three people including his brother Hyrum Smith, were also winners of the title of a prophet, seer, and revelator. For the position of presiding patriarch within the priesthood of the Church of the title was used until 1979. Colloquially, the term to "prophet" is abbreviated and sometimes also referred to the First Presidency to the exclusion of the other as "the Prophet " or President of the Church alone as " the prophet ".