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President of the Church

Highest office of the LDS church

  • Dated from 1832 CE
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Overview

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Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 3 holders
  • 1 gap
  • 1 step named in the records
  1. 8th 21 May 1945 CE – 4 April 1951 CE George Albert Smith president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  2. 9th 9 April 1951 CE – 18 January 1970 CE David O. McKay President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1873-1970)

  3. Gap about 38 years with no holder recorded

    3 February 2008 CE – 2 January 2018 CE Thomas S. Monson president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1927-2018)
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