At a time when increasing numbers of young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continue to choose to serve full-time missions, the Church is announcing plans to create an additional 55 missions, effective July 1, 2026.

The new missions will help to accommodate a growing number of missionaries already called and will allow missionaries to better support the increasing number of congregations throughout the world.

The 55 new missions, which will be created by adjusting the boundaries of existing missions, will bring the number of Church missions around the world to 506.

“It is inspiring to see the number of young Church members who continue to answer the call to share the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world,” said President Dallin H. Oaks, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “These missionaries are helping to bless the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year who are choosing to be baptized into the Lord’s Church.”

The number of young teaching and service missionaries and senior missionaries has gone from just over 65,000 at the end of 2022 to nearly 72,000 at the end of 2023 and is currently at more than 84,000. They serve in more than 150 countries and teach in more than 60 languages.

“It’s a blessing to see how each missionary contributes to the individuals they teach and serve as they share the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ,” said Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who chairs the Church’s Missionary Executive Council. “These additional missions help to balance the number of missionaries in each mission, allowing mission leaders to better support and mentor the missionaries they lead,” he said.

The new missions will be established in the following locations and are grouped into specific administrative areas of the Church in alphabetical order.

AFRICA

Africa Central: 1. DR Congo Kinshasa North; 2. DR Congo Mwene-Ditu; 3. Kenya Kisumu; 4. Uganda Kampala East

Africa South: 5. Angola Luanda North; 6. Malawi Lilongwe; 7. Mozambique Nampula; 8. South Africa East London; 9. Zimbabwe Harare West

Africa West 10. Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan South; 11. Cote d’Ivoire Daloa; 12. Ghana Accra South; 13. Ghana Sunyani; 14. Liberia Monrovia West; 15. Senegal Dakar; 16. Togo Lomé/

ASIA

Asia North: 17. Mongolia Ulaanbaatar West

BRAZIL

18. Brazil Guarulhos; 19. Brazil São Bernardo; and 20. Brazil Sorocaba

CANADA

21. Canada Halifax; 22. Canada Toronto East

EUROPE

Europe Central: 23. France Paris South; 24. Greece Athens; and 25. Spain Madrid East

Europe North: 26. Cape Verde Mindelo

MEXICO

27. México Tula

PACIFIC

28. Australia Brisbane South; 29. Papua New Guinea Daru; 30. Papua New Guinea Madang; 31. Samoa Apia East; and 32. Solomon Islands Honiara

PHILIPPINES

33. Philippines Lingayen; 34. Philippines Lipa; 35. Philippines Ormoc; 36. Philippines Ozamiz and 37. Philippines Puerto Princesa

SOUTH AMERICA NORTHWEST

38. Perú Lima Northwest; 39. Perú Tacna

SOUTH AMERICA SOUTH

40. Paraguay Asunción South; 41. Uruguay Salto

UNITED STATES CENTRAL

42. Missouri Kansas City; 43. Wyoming Cheyenne

UNITED STATES NORTHEAST

44. Indiana Fort Wayne; 45. Virginia Norfolk

UNITED STATES SOUTHEAST

46. Mississippi Jackson

UNITED STATES SOUTHWEST

47. Arizona Phoenix East; 48. Oklahoma Tulsa; 49. Texas Dallas North; 50. Texas Houston North; 51. Texas San Antonio South

UNITED STATES WEST

52. California Oceanside; 53. California Ontario; 54. California Victorville; and 55. Idaho Coeur d’Alene.