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Seventy is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Traditionally, a church member holding this priesthood office is a "traveling minister" [1] and an "especial witness" [2] of Jesus Christ, charged with the mission of preaching the gospel to the entire world under the direction of the Twelve Apostles. [3]
At the April 1995 general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), church president Gordon B. Hinckley announced the creation of a new leadership position known as the area authority. [1] In 1997, area authorities were renamed area authority seventies and ordained to the office of seventy.
In practical terms, the priesthood office of seventy is one which has varied widely over the course of history. As originally envisioned by Latter-day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith in the 1830s, the seventy were to be a body composed of several separate quorums of up to 70 seventies each, all of which would be led by seven presidents.
General authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were seventies during the time of their service as general authorities.. Until 1989, all general authority seventies were either members of the Presidency of the Seventy or the First Quorum of the Seventy.
Hans H. Mattsson is a former member of the Seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Europe. [1] [2] Mattsson is one of the few members of the LDS Church to publicly discuss his experience receiving the Second Anointing ritual. [3] [4]
Patrick Robert David Kearon (born 18 July 1961) is a British religious leader serving as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [3] He has been a general authority of the church since 2010 and was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy from August 2017 to December 2023. [4]
Clark G. Gilbert (born June 18, 1970) has been a general authority seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2021 [1] and the church commissioner of education since August of that year. [2]
Kirkham was ordained a seventy by Joseph W. McMurrin on February 26, 1905. After serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany and graduating from Brigham Young Academy , Kirkham studied music in Germany and then taught at the Latter-day Saints University .