I just had a few questions about the baptisms for the dead.1. Since the church was started how many baptisms for the dead have been preformed?2. How many Baptisms can one person do at one time?I hope these make sense. This isn't intended to be anti Mormon in anyway I was just curious about that.
None are preformed. But each session usually consists of ten baptisms that are performed. If you are truly interested on what goes on in the temples of the Lord then start now by attending Church with the local LDS congregation. The next step is to take the lessons from the missionaries, be interviewed by the bishop, and then be baptized by proper priesthood authority. Dependant upon your age, a learning process begins before you may be ordained to the office of an elder. This is prerequisite before you can attend a temple--unless you go with the youth group for baptismals. If your question is posed solely out of curiosity then I've said too much. Curiosities are not sufficient for elaboration.
I don't know how many proxy baptisms the LDS church has done. Generally, when one does baptisms for the dead, the ordinances are done in multiples of 5 or 10, I think... but that's just because that's how many names fit on a page, so that makes the record-keeping easier.
The current rate is 5 million per year. It has been at this level for about a decade since the number of temples increased. I would guess that amount is probably about equal to all the previous years. So I estimate about 100 million. The only limit on how many baptisms a person can do is time. Usually these are by appointment. If you are allocated 10 or 15 minutes, that would make 20 to 30 a normal session. President Woodruff testified that he was baptised on behalf 100 including the signers of the Declaration of Indepedence.
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let me take a wild guess there are 10 to 12 million lds So i would estimate about 6 million to 100 million baptisms by proxy are done for the dead. i was personally a witness to baptism and in one day i could watch a person do proxy baptism for all the names on his list in one session. i never read any rules that limit how many a person can do but i would assume it was according to the number of people there is geneaology work and how many people in the group.
