Hello again, everyone! It has been a tradition on this blog for me to provide updates on apostolic data roughly every 7 weeks. Having last done so on Sunday, April 19, 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 current prophet, President Dallin H. Oaks), in addition to updated information on the tenure lengths for each of the 30 Presidents of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (including current Quorum President, Henry B. Eyring).
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 tenure clock on the current groups (the Quorum of the Twelve and the 15 apostles overall) reset when Elder Gilbert was ordained.
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, plus apostolic nonagenarians (with 2 of the current 15 apostles being on that list), and a final table showing the remaining time between today and when each of the other 13 apostles will become nonagenarians and join that list.
With these updates being published every 7 weeks, the next one will be provided here on Sunday,July 26. Hopefully, this post is of interest to you all. Again, I offer an open invitation to 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.
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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.
A good Sabbath morning to you all. The Church News has shared this report about Tabernacle organists Richard Elliott and has highlighted the top 10 developments reported this week in the latest edition of "In Case You Missed It: Week in Review". And a new report from the Newsroom features instruction from Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on artificial intelligence.
ReplyDeleteGiven the fact that it is now just coming up on 8:40 AM in Willamette Valley Oregon and Yorba Linda California, the temple dedications will not begin for about another hour or so. As a result, the reports of those dedications will be shared later this afternoon or evening as they are made available. With the dedication of these two temples occurring today, the Church will have 219 operating houses of the Lord. Whether or not a goal is made to do so, it seems entirely likely that the Church could have 300 temples dedicated by or before the 200th anniversary of the Church's restoration (on Saturday, April 6, 2030). With 3.83 years between today and that date, and 81 temples left to dedicate within that time, the Church will have to dedicate roughly 21 or 22 temples per year every year to make that possible. While reaching that milestone at that date seems unlikely right now, especially since the next temple dedications are two months away,it is also true that 9 more temples (so far) will be dedicated in between mid-August and early November. So that should tamper down that average quite a bit by the time we get to early November, especially if more dedications are scheduled in between now and then, which is more than likely.
So we are entering an exciting period of temple dedications, which will hopefully correlate with Temple groundbreakings and further movements in the construction queue. And to the best of my ability, I will have the latest such updates here ASAP after I learn about them. For now, my thanks once again to you all.