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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 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 ...
[3]: 11 While Utah's colonization was started by members of the LDS Church, twenty percent of the territory's residents were not Latter-day Saints by 1880. This minority wished for a state government that was filled less by church members, including public schools that were independent of the LDS Church.
(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 April 1997, the church ordained all area authorities to the priesthood office of seventy and renamed the position "Area Authority Seventy". [7] Later, the title "Area Authority Seventy" was shortened to "Area Seventy".
The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.
A district of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a geographical administrative unit composed of a number of congregations called branches.. A district is a subdivision of a mission of the church and in many ways is analogous to a stake of the church. [1]