Stokes Sounds Off: BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: President Christofferson Will Rededicate the San Diego California Temple

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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: President Christofferson Will Rededicate the San Diego California Temple

Hello again, everyone! This morning, the First Presidency officially confirmed that President D. Todd Christofferson, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, will preside at this Sunday's rededication of the San Diego California Temple. The dedicatory session is to take place at 11:00 AM PDT (10:00 AM here in Utah), with a rebroadcast at 2:00 PM.

It makes sense that the First Presidency would send out President Christofferson for this temple dedication. He is currently the youngest and healthiest member of the First Presidency, and I believe he has some personal ties to the San Diego area. This information has been added to my document showing current apostolic temple dedications and rededications during President Oaks' prophetic tenure.

I am assuming there was no new temple construction news yesterday due to the temple groundbreaking on Saturday and the two temple dedications on Sunday. I am hopeful it was only a one-week hiatus on such news, but we will have to see. As I have noted, there are two temples (Smithfield Utah and Pago Pago American Samoa) that are only awaiting the announcement of their respective opening arrangements, and there are multiple temples for which, due to semirecent status updates, are likely to have a groundbreaking. So I hope we resume regular weekly temple construction announcements next Monday.

I am grateful for today's update, and for the chance to share that news with you today. I invite you all to 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. 

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  1. Michael WorleyAugust 18, 2026 at 11:13 AM

    Not that it matters if this is true or not, but my guess is Pres. Oaks preferred to go to Brazil than San Diego between the two, and they held off announcing both so Pres. Christofferson and Pres. Oaks could switch assignments if that worked better for Pres. Oaks in the end.

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    1. James G. StokesAugust 18, 2026 at 11:20 AM

      That's an interesting theory, Michael. But the coverage on President Oaks dedicating the Belo Horizonte Brazil Temple indicated that he deliberately chose to do that temple dedication as soon as he saw there was a completed temple in Brazil. So that would seem indicative of the idea that his self-assignment was a deliberate choice and not something that would be an "either/or" assignment. And President Christofferson does have personal ties to the San Diego area, which is indicative of another deliberate choice. So your theory is interesting, but appears to be incorrect. Thanks for taking time to comment, Michael Worley. I always appreciate hearing from you.

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