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At the April 1995 general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), church president Gordon B. Hinckley announced the creation of a new leadership position known as the area authority. [1] In 1997, area authorities were renamed area authority seventies and ordained to the office of seventy.
(In the past, area seventies have also been called "area authorities" and "area authority seventies".) Pages in category "Area seventies (LDS Church)" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), an area is an administrative unit that typically is composed of multiple stakes and missions. These areas are the primary church administrative unit between individual stakes or missions and the church as a whole.
1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the ...
Area seventies (LDS Church) (49 P) G. General authority seventies (LDS Church) (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Seventies (LDS Church)"
In 1989, the Second Quorum of the Seventy was created and was also composed of general authority seventies. Until 2016, general authority seventies were clearly designated by the church as being members of either the First of the Second Quorum. Beginning in 2016, the church ended this public identification and began referring to members of the ...
A general authority's jurisdiction is church-wide, in contrast to the responsibilities of a local authority or an area authority, which relate to a particular area, unit, or department of the church. As a group, the general authorities are often referred to as "the Brethren". [1] As of April 2023, The LDS listed 95 general authorities. [2]
Joseph Wafula Sitati (born 16 May 1952) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2009, when he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. He is the church's first black African general authority and the second general authority of black African descent. [1] [2]