LDS Church reorganizes presiding episcopate, releases seventy chief

On Saturday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reorganized its presidential bishop, who oversees its buildings, finances, welfare and other chronological functions, and released the first president of the 1970s monument.

Whitney Clayton, The 70-year-old supreme president, was released and granted honorary status. He has held the position of the seventieth general assembly since 2001. He has been a member of the seventy presidency since 2008 and was appointed as the first president in October 2015.

Meanwhile, Dean M. Davies, 69, Counselor in the Episcopal Presidency Since April 2012, He was released and summoned instead as a seventy public body.

Church spokesperson Eric Hawkins said: “Bishop Davis has been facing a major health challenge for more than a year, despite his current prognosis being positive.” New release. “We are grateful that he will be able to continue serving in this new role as the Seventy General Authority.”

W. Christopher Waddle It was preserved to replace Davis as the first major episcopal chancellor. El Todd Badge He was a second chancellor (a position formerly held by Waddle). Budge, a native of California, has been operating as a public authority for seventy since April 2019.

The archbishop is responsible for many temporal church affairs. It consists of Archbishop Gerald CosetteHe is of French origin and has two of his advisors. All of them hold the position of bishop, and they work under the direct supervision of the First Presidency.

The church also designated four new districts in the 1970s. Among them is Lorient B. Balemwa, 49, from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Jonathan W. Bunker, 61, from Las Vegas; Enrique Mayorga, 47, from Otavalo, Ecuador; And Konstantin Tulumev, 38, from Anapa, Russia.

The Church also released two other powers in the 1970s, Enrique R. Valabella, Richard J. Mainz, along with 47 1970s regions.