Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Clayton served previously in the LDS Church as a bishop, stake high councilor, counselor in a mission presidency, regional representative, and area seventy. At the time of his call as an area seventy, the Claytons lived in Irvine, California. [5] Clayton was called as a general authority and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy in 2001.
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 LDS Church today, temples serve two main purposes: (1) temples are locations in which Latter-day Saints holding a temple recommend can perform ordinances on behalf of themselves and their deceased ancestors, and (2) temples are considered to be a house of holiness where members can go to commune with God and receive personal revelation. [16]
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.
He was released from the position of area seventy in April 2005 when he had heart surgery. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Members began asking Mattsson about criticisms that they had read on the Internet, including the many wives of church founder Joseph Smith , the authenticity of the Book of Abraham , and the exclusion of black people from the priesthood ...
Patrick Robert David Kearon (born 18 July 1961) is a British religious leader serving as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [3] He has been a general authority of the church since 2010 and was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy from August 2017 to December 2023. [4]
Rojas became a member of the church's Second Quorum of the Seventy in 1991. He was released as a member of the quorum and as a general authority of the church in October 1996. [3] Rojas was called as an Area Seventy of the church in 2004. [4] He has since served in the presidency of the Mexico North Area of the church. [5]
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]