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Elder Gérald Caussé Ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

The out-of-conference call is the second in a row, the first such sequence in more than a century.

Overview

  • President Dallin H. Oaks and other senior leaders called and ordained Caussé on Nov. 6 after he was set apart to lifetime apostolic service.
  • The appointment fills a recent vacancy in the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  • Caussé, 62, is a native of Bordeaux, France, and most recently served as Presiding Bishop overseeing humanitarian aid, welfare operations, financial affairs, facilities and membership records.
  • The call came outside the Church’s April and October general conferences, following Patrick Kearon’s December 2023 out-of-conference appointment, a sequence last seen in 1919 and 1921.
  • His addition extends the Quorum’s international makeup, which includes members from Germany, England and Brazil.