Apostolic United Brethren

Apostolic United Brethren
The AUB headquarters in the Wasatch Range
Abbreviation	AUB
Classification	Restorationist
Orientation	Polygamist
Theology	Mormon fundamentalism
Polity	Hierarchical
Leader	Lynn A. Thompson
Region	North America
Headquarters	Bluffdale, Utah, U.S.
Founder	Joseph Smith (1830, claimed); Lorin C. Woolley (1929)
Origin	April 6, 1830 (officially given) March 6, 1929 (as Woolley Group); 1975 (incorporated)
Separated from	Council of Friends
Members	7,000 – 10,000

The Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) is a fundamentalist group that promotes polygamy. The AUB has had a temple in Mexico, since at least the 1990s, and an endowment house in Utah since the early 1980s.

The title "Apostolic United Brethren" is not generally used by members, who prefer to call it "The Work", "The Priesthood", or "The Group". Those outside the faith sometimes refer to it as the "Allred Group" because two of its presidents shared that surname. Members of the AUB do not refer to their organization as a "church" and, unlike nearly all other Mormon fundamentalist groups, regard The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as a legitimate, if wayward and diminished, divine institution. The AUB is unrelated to other similarly named groups such as Churches of the Brethren.

The AUB furnished a detailed description of their beliefs and practices in August 2009 to the Utah Attorney General's "Polygamy Primer", which was later revised in 2011. This booklet is used to educate the law enforcement and social relief agencies involved with similar groups.

As of 1998, there were approximately 10,000 members of the AUB, most of whom reside in Utah and Mexico. The headquarters of the AUB is in Bluffdale, Utah, where it has a chapel, a school, archives, and a sports field.

The AUB has communities in Rocky Ridge, Utah; Harvest Haven (in Eagle Mountain, Utah); Cedar City, Utah; Granite Ranch, Juab County, Utah; Pinesdale, Montana; Lovell, Wyoming; Mesa, Arizona; Humansville, Missouri; Mount Pleasant, Utah; and Ozumba, Mexico. It operates at least three private schools; many families also home-school or send their children to public or public charter schools.