Pauline Hancock
| Edith Paulina "Pauline" Bailey Hancock (Pauline Hancock) | |
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| Born |
Pauline Bailey 1903 |
| Died | October 19, 1962 |
| Known for | First woman to found and lead a denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement. |
| Spouse(s) | Silas R Hancock (1899 - ____) |
| Parent(s) | John William Alexander Bailey (1877 - 1959) |
Pauline Bailey Hancock (1903 – October 19, 1962) was the founder of the Church of Christ (Hancock) in Independence, Missouri in 1946, and was the first woman to found and lead a denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement. A former member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and then later the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), Hancock was excommunicated from the Temple Lot church in 1946, due to differences between her view of the Godhead and theirs. She later claimed a vision of Jesus Christ, whom she claimed had told her to "go and teach," leading her to found her own church in 1946. She would lead this church until her death in 1962.
Pauline Hancock was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now called the Community of Christ), whose father had been a minister of that denomination in Salt Lake City, Utah. During the Supreme Directional Control controversy of the 1920s, she opposed President Frederick M. Smith's attempt to take "supreme directional control" over the RLDS church; she later transferred her membership to the Church of Christ (Temple Lot). In 1935, following the excommunication of her friend Apostle Samuel Wood of the Temple Lot church (who was expelled for believing in a modalistic view of the Godhead, a view Hancock supported), Hancock resigned from that organization.
Hancock later claimed to have had a vision in which God told her to "go and teach others." Her account of this vision is as follows:
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