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The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced the 2025–2026 area leadership assignments, including the names of leaders for the newly created Canada Area, which was announced in December 2024, and the renaming of North America areas to say “United States” instead of “North America.” The Canada Area office will be in or near Calgary, Alberta.
The assignments below affect the Presidency of the Seventy and area presidencies and become effective on August 1, 2025.
Download a Church News PDF of the 2025–2026 area leadership assignments. (See the current 2024–2025 area leadership assignments here and in this downloadable chart.)
The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve preside over all affairs of the Church. Members of area presidencies are General Authority Seventies or Area Seventies. Area presidencies consist of a president and two counselors who operate from area offices in each assigned area.
There are 24 areas in the Church of Jesus Christ – seven that span the United States and Canada and 17 additional areas outside of those two countries.
Beginning in 1984, areas were established to direct the work in geographic locations of the global Church. The area presidencies for the U.S. and Canada work from Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Church’s Middle East/Africa North Area is also administered from headquarters.
“The Seventy are to act in the name of the Lord, under the direction of the Twelve … in building up the Church and regulating all the affairs of the same in all nations” (see Doctrine and Covenants 107:34).
Presidency of the Seventy
The Presidency of the Seventy for 2025–2026, from left to right below: Elder Carl B. Cook, Elder S. Mark Palmer, Elder Marcus B. Nash, Elder Michael T. Ringwood, Elder Arnulfo Valenzuela, Elder Edward Dube and Elder Kevin R. Duncan.
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