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Dallin H. Oaks and family's inauguration photo (1971) After the resignation of Ernest L. Wilkinson as BYU's 7th president, Neal A. Maxwell , who was the Commissioner of the Church Educational System , created a search committee for a new president, without any good leads on candidates.
On January 16, 2018, the church announced that due to the call of Dallin H. Oaks as a counselor in the First Presidency, M. Russell Ballard would serve as Acting President. [5] After Ballard's death on November 12, 2023, Jeffrey R. Holland was set apart as the new acting president on November 15. [6]
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 ...
The church takes pains to keep its official positions apolitical, and last weekend, one of its senior leaders, Dallin H. Oaks, encouraged members to be civil ahead of the November election ...
Dallin H. Oaks ordained. 19 April 1985 Bruce R. McConkie dies. 10 October 1985 M. Russell Ballard ordained. 5 November 1985 Spencer W. Kimball dies. 10 November 1985 The First Presidency is reorganized, with Ezra Taft Benson as president, Gordon B. Hinckley as First Counselor, and Thomas S. Monson as Second Counselor.
The complete ban on any students with a homosexual orientation was softened a decade later by Wilkinson's successor, Dallin H. Oaks, in an April 19, 1973, Board of Trustees meeting. There it was decided BYU administrators would allow for students who had repented of homosexual acts and forsaken them for a lengthy period of time.
Dallin H. Oaks: 1954 B.A. Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [39] Russell T. Osguthorpe: 1971 1973 1975 B.A. M.A. Ph.D. Sunday School General President [280] Boyd K. Packer: 1962 Ed.D. Former president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [281] Reed Smoot: 1876 B.A. Former member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [7] Belle Spafford ...
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