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Sunday, November 23, 2025

UPDATED: Current Apostolic Data

Hello again, everyone! It has been a tradition on this blog for me to provide updates on apostolic data every 7 weeks. Having last done so on Sunday, October 5, it is time to publish the newest such data. As with every two-part update, the first part contains updated data about the age and tenure length records for all 18 Church Presidents (including our new porphet,President Dallin H. Oaks), in addition to updated information on the tenure lengths for each of the 29 Presidents of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (including our newest Quorum President, Jeffrey R.Holland).The first document likewise notes information on the tenure length rankings for three sets of apostolic groups: the longest-serving First Presidencies (with the current First Presidency not even making that list for the next 6 years), the longest-serving groups of members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and groups of all ordained apostles (the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) The clock on the current group reset when President Nelson died, then reset again when the First Presidency was reconstituted, and it will reset a third time once the vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is filled, whenever that may be.

Meanwhile, the second part of today's update shows the long-form and decimal ages for the members of the current First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and the same data for the combined First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in addition to the average ages of each group and apostolic nonagenarians (with 2 of the current 14 apostles being on that list), and a final table showing the remaining time between today and when each of the other 12 apostles will become nonagenarians and join that list.

This is the last such update for 2025.THe first update for 2026 will come your way on Sunday, January 11, 2026.

Hopefully, this post is of interest to you all. Again, I offer an open invitation to ask anyone who has any questions about those documents to ask them here.

Stay tuned here for my coverage of the latest updates from the Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples sites. I’ll be sure to pass word of those along to you all as soon as I learn about them. In the meantime, that does it for now. All comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated on any post at any time, as long as all such feedback is made per the established guidelines. I hope any of you who would like to share anything will take your opportunity to “sound off” in the comments below. If you liked what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly added posts and comments, please subscribe to receive the applicable updates.

Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

2 comments:

  1. President Holland appears to be the first President of the 12 since Thomas B. March to be ordained to that calling with all apostles who have been called since him still be serving alongside him or in the First Presidency.

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    1. Hey, Michael Worley! Great to hear from you, but I'm not quite sure I understand what you said. It's probably some confusion on my end, but could you explain what you meant? Sorry.

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