MORMON PRESIDENT HINCKLEY DIES LEADER OVERSAW PERIOD OF MAJOR CHURCH EXPANSION.(News)(Obituary)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: January 28, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES

Gordon B. Hinckley, the president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who led Mormonism through a period of global expansion, died Sunday at his apartment in Salt Lake City. He was 97.

By unfailing tradition, at a church president's death, the church's most senior apostle is ordained within days on a unanimous vote of the Council of the Twelve Apostles. The most long-serving apostle now is Thomas S. Monson, 80.

Hinckley spent 46 years in the church's top leadership ranks, nearly 13 of those as its 15th president - ...

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