High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Latter Day Saint is an adherent of the Latter Day Saint movement, a group of denominations tracing their heritage to the teachings of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Church of Christ he organized in 1830. This article concerns the use of the term Latter Day Saint and its variant Latter-day Saint, which is used exclusively by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).The first known use of the term Latter Day Saint was in 1834, shortly before the Church of Christ was informally renamed "the Church of the Latter Day Saints" to distinguish it from other "Churches of Christ" that were being established at the time. The term derives from Smith's teaching that adherents of the religion God established were "saints" in the same sense that Paul of Tarsus used the term, meaning that they were followers of Christ.