According to the LDS Church Temples page on this temple, Elder Claudio R. M. Costa, president of the Church's Brazil Area, has been asked to preside at the groundbreaking. And it is a pretty safe bet that among the other Church leaders that will be in attendance will be his counselors in the area presidency, Elders Marcos A. Aidukaitis and W. Mark Bassett, and also Elder Larry Y. Wilson, the Executive Director of the Temple Department.
However, the one who will actually preside at the groundbreaking remains to be seen. Assignments to preside at groundbreaking ceremonies have been known to change. As a recent example, Elder Ulisses Soares was originally asked to preside at the most recent temple groundbreaking in Winnipeg Manitoba, but when he, for reasons yet unknown, wasn't able to be there, Elder Wilson was the one who officiated at that groundbreaking.
I remember very clearly also how someone else had originally been assigned to preside at the Tucson Arizona temple groundbreaking. It may have been Elder Ronald A. Rasband, who at the time the groundbreaking was announced was serving as Senior President of the Seventy. But it was President Dieter F. Uchtdorf who actually presided at that groundbreaking. And if it had been Elder Rasband originally assigned, his call to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the fact that he was easing into that new role would have necessitated that change.
Now the question remains, what will the temple look like, and how long might construction take? At various and sundry times and places, I have voiced my opinion that we might see the temples in Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro be finished around the same time. I will keep my eyes open for more news on this front, and I will post such up;dates as soon as I can after learning of them.
In the meantime, in addition to the verification of this scheduled groundbreaking, there have been several other temple construction progress developments that have given me reason to post again my updated report of that progress. Enjoy, and please feel free to leave comments for me. Your feedback is part of why I have been able to do all I have done in terms of these posts. I appreciate you all! Thanks!
Temple
Construction Progress Report (current as of 1/19/17)
Current
Temple Status: 155 operating; 1 scheduled for
dedication; 11 under construction; 1 groundbreaking scheduled; 1 scheduled
for rededication; 2 undergoing renovation; 9 announced. NOTE: With one groundbreaking
announced already this year, two more have the potential to be announced and
scheduled very soon, and there may be several more groundbreakings than that in
the year ahead.
Dedication
scheduled:
156. Paris France Temple: Gilding inscription
over baptistry; finish work underway on interior; dedication scheduled for Sunday May 21, 2017.
Under Construction:
157. Meridian Idaho
Temple: Patron plazas and water feature added to temple grounds; interior
finish work underway; completion anticipated sometime during late
2017.
158. Cedar City Utah
Temple: Art glass installation and landscaping
continues; completion anticipated sometime during late
2017.
159. Tucson Arizona
Temple: Pavers installed in parking lot and west patron plaza; trees and
landscaping rocks added to parking lot green spaces; completion anticipated
sometime during late 2017.
160. Rome Italy Temple:
Interior work progressing; completion anticipated
sometime between early and mid-2018.
161. Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of the Congo Temple: Building the exterior
walls; completion anticipated sometime between early and
mid-2018.
162. Concepcion Chile
Temple: Attaching building wrap to exterior walls; adding landscaping
structures; completion anticipated sometime during mid-2018.
163. Durban South
Africa Temple: Temple foundation poured; setting
concrete forms for missionary housing walls; completion anticipated
sometime during mid-2018.
164. Barranquilla
Colombia Temple: Pouring walls for steeple base; completion anticipated sometime
between late 2018 and early 2019.
165. Winnipeg Manitoba
Temple: Groundbreaking held Saturday December 3, 2016; completion anticipated
sometime between late 2018 and early 2019.
166. Fortaleza Brazil
Temple: Second floor exterior walls poured; completion anticipated
sometime during 2019.
167. Lisbon Portugal
Temple: Excavation underway for temple and utility building; structural
framing going up for meetinghouse; completion anticipated
sometime during 2019.
Groundbreaking Scheduled:
168. Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple:
Preparing for groundbreaking; environmental license issued in November 2016;
groundbreaking scheduled for Saturday
March 4, 2017.
Rededication Scheduled:
8. Idaho Falls Idaho
Temple: Closed for renovation; finish work underway; rededication scheduled for
Sunday June 4, 2017.
Undergoing Renovation:
20. Jordan River Utah
Temple: Closed for renovation; rededication anticipated sometime between late
2017 and early 2018.
41. Frankfurt Germany
Temple: Closed for renovation; some exterior stone removed; foundation exposed;
old meetinghouse razed; rededication anticipated sometime between early
and mid-2018.
Announced:
169. Arequipa Peru
Temple: Construction preparation
phase; awaiting groundbreaking announcement; groundbreaking
anticipated in early 2017.
170. Harare Zimbabwe
Temple: Approval and construction preparation phase; official site announcement
anticipated in 2017, with the groundbreaking anticipated to take place shortly
following the site announcement.
171. Port-au-Prince
Haiti Temple: Planning and approval phase; awaiting official site announcement.
NOTE: The LDS Church Temple website indicates that a potential site has been
announced and that the temple itself is currently being designed. This
indicates that a site announcement is likely to happen sooner rather than
later.
172. Bangkok Thailand
Temple: Planning and approval phase; awaiting official site announcement. NOTE:
As the above-mentioned website indicates for this temple, while no official
temple site has been announced, there may be a possibility that a Church office
building may be reconstructed into a multi-purpose edifice that may in part
function as the temple. If that happens, it will be similar to the situation of
the Hong Kong China and Manhattan New York temples. This indicates also that a
site announcement is likely to happen sooner rather than later.
173. Urdaneta Philippines Temple: Stalled in planning
and approval phase; awaiting official site announcement.
174. Abidjan Ivory Coast Temple: Planning phase; awaiting
official site announcement.
175. Quito Ecuador Temple: Planning phase; awaiting
official site announcement.
176. Belem Brazil Temple: Planning phase; awaiting
official site announcement.
177. Lima Peru Los Olivos Temple: Planning phase; awaiting
official site announcement.
Key:
Bolded
numbers and text denote temples whose
numbers already exists (for renovations), or is certain due to a scheduled
dedication, as well as information that is certain, such as dedication or
groundbreaking dates.
Italicized
numbers and text denote
temples whose numbers may change based on the order in which future dedications
and groundbreakings are scheduled.
Underlined
numbers and text denote temples whose
numbers may change based on progress towards planning, approval, and
groundbreaking.
Red
text denotes changes from the last posted
temple progress report.
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