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President Jeffrey R. Holland is now the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He was set apart to this new assignment by President Russell M. Nelson, the Prophet and President of the Church, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

President Holland succeeds the late President M. Russell Ballard, the previous Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who died Sunday, Nov. 12.

President Holland, 82, was ordained an apostle on June 23, 1994. He is the Church’s third-most-senior apostle, after President Nelson and President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency, who both were ordained in 1984.

The new assignment and setting apart were first announced Nov. 16 on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

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