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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.
First Counselor, Middle East/Africa North Area [76] Kevin W. Pearson [39] General Authority Seventy 2008-04-05 67.7 16.7 President, Utah Area [49] [50] Anthony D. Perkins General Authority Seventy 2006-04-01 64.3 18.7 President, Middle East/Africa North Area [77] Alan T. Phillips General Authority Seventy 2023-04-01 54.5 1.7
Lowell Miller Snow (born January 2, 1944) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2005 to 2011. [1] Snow was a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy and in 2006 became the president of the Africa West Area of the church. [citation needed]
Orrin Porter Miller (September 11, 1858 – July 7, 1918) was a member of the presiding bishopric of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1901 to his death. Born in Millcreek , Utah Territory , Miller was a local leader in the church prior to his call as a general authority .
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.
Steven Erastus Snow (born November 23, 1949) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2001. He served as the Church Historian and Recorder from 2012 until 2019. Snow was born in St. George, Utah into a Latter-day Saint family.
Benjamin Berry Banks (born April 4, 1932) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1989. He was a member of the seven-man Presidency of the Seventy from 1999 to 2002 and has also been president of the church's Jordan River Utah Temple.
William Rawsel Bradford (October 25, 1933 - January 24, 2019) was an American general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1975 until his death. Bradford was born in Springville, Utah , to Rawsel W. Bradford and Mary Waddoups.