SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KSL.com) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced its new Presiding Bishopric Friday, after Elder Gérald Caussé, the former presiding bishop, was called as the newest apostle last week.

The First Presidency named Bishop W. Christopher Waddell as the church’s 16th presiding bishop. He has been a member of the Presiding Bishopric since 2016, formerly was a general authority seventy and area seventy, and previously served as a mission president in Barcelona, Spain.

Bishop Waddell, 66, was born in Los Angeles. He made a career working for Merill Lynch, a wealth management and investment firm. He and his wife Carol Stansel are the parents of four children.

The Presiding Bishopric serves under the direction of the First Presidency to care for those in

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