Hello again, everyone! While I continue to welcome
comments on any previous posts (particularly any feedback any of you have on my
April 2019 General Conference predictions or the latest posts on other subjects),
it is time once again to bring you all updated information on the latest
apostolic statistics. This data will again be published in two posts. While I
hope most of you will find this information interesting and enlightening, there
may be some of you who are not interested in the data I will present.
Consequently, I will not in any way be offended or bothered if any of you skip
over this post and the next one.
The last time I provided such an update was 6 weeks ago,
on Sunday December 16. Given that today is Sunday January 27, this will be my first
such update for this year. Just a quick side-note here: Sharing these updates
every 6 weeks has become somewhat of a tradition on this blog, one which I hope
to continue for the foreseeable future. With that in mind, I will plan to post
my next update relating to this data on Sunday March 10. As usual, all data is
current as of today. That said, there have been some very significant changes
relating to such information since my last such update, so let’s get right into
all of that.
We will first look at President Dallin H. Oaks’ tenure as
President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, then turn our attention to
where Church President Russell M. Nelson stands among the 16 previous Church
Presidents in terms of his age and tenure length. That will be followed by some
observations about the tenure lengths of our current First Presidency, Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles, and all currently-living ordained apostles as a group. The
more specific data about upcoming apostolic birthdays, the long-form and
decimal ages of our 15 current apostles, and details about nonagenarians will then
follow in a second post.
President Oaks has now served as President of the Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles for a period of 1 year and 13 days, and he has not moved
up among the other Quorum Presidents since my last update. As noted previously,
he will only be observing his next milestone on that list in April 2019. To put
that into perspective in terms of these updates, if I continue to provide them
every six weeks, there will be one more update of this kind before that
milestone is reached. He will then observe two additional milestones two days
apart in July, followed by one each in November and December of next year. More
specific details on those milestones will be forthcoming closer to the time.
As mentioned previously, the length of President Oaks’
service will depend not only on his health and life length, but, of course, the
health and life length of President Nelson will factor into that as well. Insofar
as I am aware, not one of our 15 current apostles is having any health-related
issues at the present time. That said, the health of our apostles is something else
I am monitoring, and I will be sure to bring updates about that to you all as I
become aware of them.
Shifting our focus now to President Nelson, since he was
ordained and set apart as Church President on the same day he set apart
President Oaks as Quorum President, his tenure has spanned 1 year and 13 days
as well. He is also now 94 years, 4 months, and 18 days old. He will observe
both his second tenure-length and his first age-length milestone two days apart
in July of 2019, with subsequent milestones more spread out in the years
following that. And again, I will be detailing those more specifically closer
to the time when they will be reached.
In the meantime, as also noted previously, the current
First Presidency will only be joining the list of longest continuously serving
First Presidencies in Church history on Saturday April 20, 2024, so I will be
outlining their future milestones on that list closer to the time. As for the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the
current members will mark 3 years together on March 31, 2021, at which point
they will join the list of the longest-serving Quorums of the Twelve Apostles
in Church history. I will likewise be providing updates on those future
milestones closer to that time.
Interestingly enough, less than two months prior to that,
the 15 apostles will make the list of the longest-serving such group (the exact
date is February 8, 2021). With that said, I want to conclude this portion of
the update. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always,
welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are
in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of
your time.
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Lord will bless you all in everything you do.
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