Hello again, everyone! While I continue to welcome
comments on any previous posts,
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. Again, all data is
current as of today (Sunday September 22, 2019). As always, it is my sincere hope
that most of you will find this information interesting and enlightening. With
that said, I am fully aware that some of you may not be interested in this
update. Consequently, I will not in any way be offended or bothered if any of
you skip over this post and the next one.
This first post, as has been the case for previous updates, will address President Dallin H. Oaks’ tenure as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, then shift to explore where Church President Russell M. Nelson currently stands in terms of his age and tenure length among his prophetic predecessors. 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 current and future apostolic nonagenarians will then follow in a second post, which will be published a few minutes after this one is.
My last such update was posted on Sunday August 4, and I
am planning on posting the next scheduled update in 7 weeks, on Sunday November
10. There is a lot to get to, so let’s jump right in. President Oaks has now
served as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for a period of 1 year,
8 months, and 8 days. As I previously
mentioned. President Oaks is now the 22nd longest-serving
Quorum President, and he has not moved up on that list since my last update.
His next three milestones as such, as I mentioned in my last
such update, will be observed consecutively, with one each in November and
December 2019, and one more in January 2020. So it won’t be until my next
update (planned for November 10) update that I will detail more particulars
regarding the first of those next milestones.
Turning now to President Nelson, who was ordained and set
apart as Church President on the same day he set apart President Oaks as President
of the Quorum of the Twelve, his prophetic tenure has spanned 1 year, 8 months,
and 8 days as well. Having observed his 95th birthday since my last
update, he is now 95 years, 0 months, and 13 days old. Within my last couple of
updates, I mentioned the particulars of of his only 2019 prophetic age and
tenure milestones, which were observed two days apart in July. President Nelson
is thus now the 15th longest-serving Church President, and also the 4th
oldest-living Church President. He will not be moving up on either list until
next summer.
In the meantime, as also noted previously, I have been
keeping lists of the longest-continuously serving First Presidencies, Quorums
of the Twelve Apostles, and apostolic groups as a whole. Those lists include 13
of each of those groups that have served together for the longest continuous
periods of time. The current First Presidency will only be joining the list of other
First Presidencies 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 now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome
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