Apostles will ‘direct the church’ until First Presidency is reorganized, Latter

SALT LAKE CITY – As the 195th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday morning, a top leader told attendees that the worldwide faith is under the direction of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles “until such time as the First Presidency is reorganized.”

“This is known as an apostolic interregnum, and it has occurred at various times throughout the history of the church,” said Elder Henry B. Eyring of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who had previously served in the First Presidency under President Russell M. Nelson, who died last weekend at age 101.

Elder Eyring noted that he and President Dallin H. Oaks, who is expected to succeed President Nelson as leader of the church, “have taken our places in the Quorum of the Twelve Apos