SALT LAKE CITY — The following General Authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were released and received an expression of gratitude for their many years of service during the Saturday afternoon session of the Church’s 181st Semiannual General Conference 1 October 2011.

First Quorum of the Seventy (Emeritus status)

  • Elder Gary J. Coleman
  • Elder Richard G. Hinckley
  • Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi
  • Elder Carl B. Pratt
  • Elder Cecil O. Samuelson (will continue to serve as president of Brigham Young University)

Second Quorum of the Seventy

  • Elder Won Yong Ko
  • Elder Lowell M. Snow
  • Elder Paul K. Sybrowsky

Area Seventies

  • Elder Ralph W. Hardy, Jr.
  • Elder Jon M. Huntsman, Sr.
  • Elder Aleksandr N. Manzhos
  • Elder J. Willard Marriott, Jr.