However, the latter term was deprecated by the Community of Christ after the church began ordaining women to the priesthood.
Other denominations, such as The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), have an evangelist position independent of the original "patriarch" office instituted movement founder Joseph Smith.
Hyrum himself was killed in 1844 along with Joseph, resulting in a succession crisis that broke the Latter Day Saint movement into multiple denominations.
In 1834, while writing what he called the "principles of salvation", prominent early Latter Day Saint Oliver Cowdery stated that: Joseph Smith echoed Cowdery's statement in 1842, in a letter to a Chicago newspaper editor outlining the church's basic beliefs.
Smith said that his religion "believe[s] in the same organization that existed in the primitive church, viz: apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists".
The local evangelist-patriarchs of the church were governed by an individual with church-wide authority known as the Presiding Patriarch.
The Quorum of Seventy oversees the activities of its Missionary Operating Committees to ensure the fulfilling of Christ's commandment to take the gospel to the entire world.