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Melvin Russell Ballard Jr. (October 8, 1928 – November 12, 2023) was an American businessman and religious leader who served as the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2018 until his death in 2023. [3]
Ballard, who was second-in-line to become church president as the second-longest-tenured member of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, died Sunday surrounded by family ...
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]
Oaks is set apart as President of the Quorum, with M. Russell Ballard as Acting President. 31 March 2018 Gerrit W. Gong and Ulisses Soares added to the Quorum.
After the death of M. Russell Ballard on November 12, 2023, Holland was appointed and set apart as the acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on November 15, 2023. [ 2 ] Personal life
VICE reported earlier this month that Ballard claimed his work with OUR got the blessing of M. Russell Ballard, who is acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus ...
On 1 August 2020, Kearon became the senior president of the seventy, [5] becoming the first in this role to have been born outside the United States since the reconstitution of the Presidency of the Seventy in 1975. [citation needed] As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Kearon is accepted by the LDS Church as a prophet, seer, and revelator ...
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