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Sunday, June 7, 2026

UPDATED: Current Apostolic Data

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. 

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. 

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  1. James G. StokesJune 7, 2026 at 9:52 AM

    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.

    Given 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.

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    1. James G. StokesJune 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM

      Elder Gerrit W. Gong has recently taught how to consistently hear God's voice in a world becoming increasingly more dominated by artificial intelligence. Our "Come, Follow Me" study for this upcoming week will focus on 1 Samuel 8-10, 13, 15-16. See what Church leaders have taught about those passages. And he Church News highlights 9 new stake presidencies, 2 for new stakes, and 7 other recent reorganizations.

      Nothing new from the Newsroom, not even reports about today's two temple dedications. Hopefully that coverage will be shared in one or two new reports later this afternoon. In the interim, I will be looking for any other new temple construction updates to pass along as well. My thanks once again to you all.

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    2. James G. StokesJune 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM

      The first leaders have been called for the Knoxville Tennessee and Modesto California Temples, which may indicate they will be dedicated either by the end of this year or in the early months of next year. This brings the total number of new temple leader couples called this year to a grand total of 55, unless I am missing any. And other new temple leader couples could still be called before the end of this year.

      Above and beyond that, however, the Newsroom and the Church News have reported on the Willamette Valley Oregon Temple dedication, which was done by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was accompanied by Elders K. Brett Nattress, who it appears is one of the Assistant Executive Directors of the Temple Department and Peter M. Johnson, who serves in the United States West Area Presidency (incorrectly listed in the article as the North America West Area Presiency),.

      Hopefully a report on the dedication of the Yorba Linda California Temple will come in soon. My thanks once again to you all.

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    3. James G. StokesJune 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM

      The Newsroom has provided this coverage of the Yorba Linda Calfornia Temple dedication, for which he was accompanied by Elder Steven R. Bangerter, Executive Director of the Temple Department, Elder I. Raymond Egbo, who may be an Assistant Executive Director of the Temple Department; and Elder Takashi Wada, who is the United States West Area President. There is not yet a corresponsding report of this dedication on the Church News website, but hopefully that is forthcoming. My thanks once again to you all.

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    4. James G. StokesJune 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM

      The Church News published this report about the Yorba Linda California Temple. Given that both the Newsroom and the Church News have published these reports about the two temple dedications today, I don't think that these dedications and the two temple groundbreakings that occurred yesterday will be the only temple news we get this week. So stay tuned here tomorrow during the 2:00 PM MDT hour for my report on anything else that might be announced. I know that we have the media day for the Belo Horizonte Brazil Temple coming up on Wednesday, but I have a strong feeling we'll be getting something else as usual on Monday, whether that is 1 or more dedications, 1 or more groundbreakings, 1 or more exterior renderings,or 1 or more site location confirmations. So stay tuned. My thanks once again to you all.

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    5. James G. StokesJune 8, 2026 at 11:54 AM

      On this Monday, the Church News has shared study and teaching resources for the April 2026 General Conference talk by Elder Ulisses Soares, in addition to reporting on the groundbreakings for the Springfield Missouri and Missoula Montana Temples.

      We are now just over two hours away from the next anticipated major temple construction announcement, so stay tuned here during the 2:00 PM MDT hour for my analysis of whatever might be announced then. In the meantime, my thanks once again to you all.

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    6. James G. StokesJune 8, 2026 at 11:58 AM

      Here is a Newsroom story from Mexico. My thanks once again to you all.

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    7. James G. StokesJune 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM

      On this Tuesday, the Chu srch News has published several new updates: study and teaching resources for the April 2026 General Conference talk by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf; the Swedish origin story for the new hymn "My Covenats"; humanitarin efforts in Cwntral Africa; the latest episode of the Church News podcast; and the text of the deducatiry prayers for the https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2026/06/09/yorba-linda-california-temple-dedicatory-prayer-president-d-todd-christofferson/" >Yorba Linda California and the Willamette Valley OregonTemples. My thanks once again to you all.

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    8. James G. StokesJune 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM

      The link to the text of the dedicatory prayer for the Yorba Linda California Temple above was broken. My thanks once again to you all.

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