SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The 18th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been chosen by the Quorum of the Twelve and sustained by the Church membership during the most recent General Conference. President Dallin H. Oaks, the president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will now assume leadership of the worldwide Church.

President Dallin Harris Oaks has called President Henry B. Eyring, 92, and President D. Todd Christofferson, 80, to serve with him as First and Second Counselors in the First Presidency, the Church’s highest governing body. Jeffrey R. Holland, 84, will serve as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Who is President Oaks?

The now 18th leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was born on August 12, 1932 in Provo, UT. Th

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