Hello again, everyone! Having set the stage in the first part of this apostolic age update, we now move on to talk specifics regarding the ages of our apostles, the average ages of the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and the 15 apostles as a group, current and future nonagenarians, and any other pertinent information. So let’s get right into all of that.
We start with the First Presidency. President Nelson is now 93 years, 8 months, and 11 days old, with a decimal age of 93.69 years. President Oaks is 85 years, 9 months, and 8 days old, with a decimal age of 85.77 years. President Eyring, who, as noted in the previous post, will observe his birthday in just 11 days, is now 84 years, 11 months, and 20 days old, putting his decimal age at 84.97 years.
The three have a combined 264.43 years of life experience, which puts their average age at 88.14 years as of today. As previously noted, President Oaks is the closest of the three to that average, as his age is 2.37 years below it. The ages of President Nelson and President Eyring respectively fall above and below that average.
We move on now to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Before I go into specifics on these 12 men, I wanted to note that, although I have previously listed this information in groups of four apostles, I decided that, starting with today’s update, and since the First Presidency has three members, it would make more sense to list this data in groups of three apostles each.
That said, President Ballard is 89 years, 6 months, and 12 days old as of today, with a decimal age of 89.61 years. Elder Holland is now 77 years, 5 months, and 17 days old, or 77.46 decimal years. Elder Uchtdorf’s long-form age is 77 years, 6 months, and 14 days, which is 77.53 decimal years.
With Elder Bednar’s birthday being just under a month away, his long-form age is 65 years, 11 months, and 5 days old, or 65.93 years. The oldest but least-senior of our three apostles born in 1940 is Elder Cook, who has a long-form age of 77 years, 8 months, and 12 days, which is 77.70 years. For Elder Christofferson, he is 73 years, 2 months, and 15 days old, making his decimal age 73.20 years.
His seatmate, Elder Andersen, is now 66 years, 9 months, and 11 days old, making his decimal age 66.78 years. Elder Rasband, who, as previously noted, is just over six months older than Elder Andersen, has a long-form age of 67 years, 3 months, and 14 days, which is 67.28 decimal years. Elder Gary E. Stevenson, who, as noted previously, is now the second-youngest apostle, is currently 62 years, 9 months, and 14 days old, with a decimal age of 62.79.
Rounding out things with the final three Quorum members, Elder Renlund’s long-form age now stands at 65 years, 6 months, and 7 days old, which makes his decimal age 65.52 years. Elder Gong, who is just around 13 months younger than Elder Renlund, now has a long-form age of 64 years, 4 months, and 27 days, which is 64.41 years. Elder Soares, who is our only apostle currently under the age of 60, is exactly 59 years, 7 months, and 18 days old, which is 59.63 decimal years.
The current members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles have a combined 847.96 years, which averages out to 70.66 years. As I mentioned in my last update, 5 of those 12 are older than the average, while the other 7 are all younger than the average. And, as I mentioned before, Elders Christofferson is the youngest of those 5 oldest, and Elder Rasband is the oldest of the 7 youngest.
In adding the combined life experience of all 15 apostles, we get a total of 1,112.39 years, which an average age of 74.16 years. I may have been in error last time when I posted information about the apostles closest to that average. It appears that 7 of the apostles are older than that average, and 8 are younger, with Elder Holland being the youngest of the oldest, and Elder Christofferson being the oldest of the youngest.
We now move on to the nonagenarians. President Nelson remains the 7th oldest apostle, and he will move up on the list 13.5 months or so from now. President Ballard will join that list in around 4.5 months. Since the birthdays of Elder Soares and President Ballard occur less than a week apart in October, that means that Elder Soares is 30 years younger than President Ballard, his 90th birthday is around 30 years and 4.5 months away.
I continue to track all of this information, and will do my level best to pass updates on to you regularly. As I mentioned in my previous post, my hope is to post on this subject once every month or two. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best, and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Latest Apostolic Statistics: Part Two--Updated Ages & Other Important Information
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I'd like to see an average age of all apostles from the restoration at the time of call and death. That may prove interesting. Maybe even add the length of time as an apostle or prophet.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking time to comment, Chris. Others have documented that kind of information quite well. The site ldsfacts,net contains extensive information and trivia about Church leaders, much of which relates to current and recently-deceased apostles. I used that source in combination with Wikipedia, the latest edition of the Church Almanac, and my own files of apostolic information to put this together, and that website may be the best source for the information you are requesting.
ReplyDeleteThe problem I run into personally is that there are so many general Church and temple developments on a weekly basis that I want to pass along here, so for more extensive posts like these apostolic statistical updates, I have had to confine my focus to more general information.
That said, I did want to offer a slight disclaimer: About a month ago, I consulted the LDS Facts site in order to add the data about the longest continuously-serving First Presidencies, Quorums of the Twelve, and apostolic groups to these reports. Within the scope of that process, I found that some of the date ranges and individuals involved in those lists were somewhat inaccurate in certain places. I was able to assemble more correct data from other sources. That said, I seem to recall coming across a portion of that website that mentioned some of the averages you asked about, and although there may be a discrepancy of a few days here and there with that information, for the most part, the webmaster has certainly done his homework. So for the information you requested, I'd refer you to that site. Hope that helps. Thanks, Chris!
Just double-checked on it again. You may find the information you seek at the more specific link below.
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Thanks again, Chris!
Just wanted to clarify something I noted in my first reply above. The inaccuracies of which I spoke primarily referred to the dates of the longest continuously-serving First Presidencies, Quorums of the Twelve, and apostolic groups. I did not find any errors that I know of in terms of the ages and tenure lengths of the individual members, or the dates of calls, their death dates, or ages. So that is information I can endorse fully, and will be a great resource for you. Thanks, Chris!
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