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Beginning Sunday, May 19, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will dedicate five temples over five Sundays, with the first two dedications to be presided over by the same senior leader in a span of a mere 14 days.
Both are noteworthy and uncommon — but each has been replicated recently and in shorter time periods.
Also, the Church will have another two-temple dedication day in June — something that has happened only a handful of times in the past 20 years. But multiple houses of the Lord have been dedicated on the same day three times over the past year and a half, including a three-dedication day just nine months ago.
Beginning Sunday, May 19, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will dedicate five temples over five Sundays, with the first two dedications to be presided over by the same senior leader in a span of a mere 14 days.
Both are noteworthy and uncommon — but each has been replicated recently and in shorter time periods.
Also, the Church will have another two-temple dedication day in June — something that has happened only a handful of times in the past 20 years. But multiple houses of the Lord have been dedicated on the same day three times over the past year and a half, including a three-dedication day just nine months ago.
Three more houses of the Lord will be dedicated on successive Sundays by members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — the Cobán Guatemala Temple by Elder Dale G. Renlund on June 9, and then the Salta Argentina Temple by Elder D. Todd Christofferson and the Layton Utah Temple by Elder David A. Bednar, both on June 16.
5 temples over 5 Sundays
While the five dedications over as many weekends — or over a four-week span — is significant, in fall 2023, the Church dedicated five temples in a three-week period. But it took two multidedication days to do that.
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