An evangelist is part of the Quorum of Seventy Evangelists.

The Quorum of Seventy oversees the activities of its Missionary Operating Committees to ensure the fulfilling of Christ ’ s commandment to take the gospel to the entire world.

In 2007, the officers of the Quorum of Seventy Evangelists were:

Other key leadership positions include Presiding Evangelist, Senior President of the Presidents of Seventy, and President of the High Priests Quorum.

* Richard Maynes, a member of the Quorum of the Seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Six months later, he was ordained to the office of seventy and was called to serve in the Third Quorum of the Seventy.

However, no attempt was made to remove Abel's priesthood or drop him from the Third Quorum of the Seventy.

The President's other duties consist of presiding at and conducting weekly meetings of the Quorum in the Salt Lake Temple ; making decisions about the particular assignments to be made to the members of the Quorum ; speaking on behalf of the Quorum to members of the Church and the media ; and acting as a liaison in coordinating the work of the Quorum with the First Presidency, the Quorums of the Seventy, and the Presiding Bishopric.

Permanent positions are only held by apostles and the First Quorum of the Seventy.

Church policy decisions are made unanimously, with consultation among the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, and where appropriate, the Seventy, each of which has its own responsibility.

In a speech given at BYU in 2010, Glenn L. Pace, a member of the LDS Church's First Quorum of the Seventy, said, “ Sisters, I testify that when you stand in front of your heavenly parents in those royal courts on high and look into Her eyes and behold Her countenance, any question you ever had about the role of women in the kingdom will evaporate into the rich celestial air, because at that moment you will see standing directly in front of you, your divine nature and destiny .”

While the Quorum of the Seventy had a building in Nauvoo in the 1840s, the Relief Society is the only auxiliary organization in the LDS Church today which has a completely separate facility.

Other officers of the church include the Quorum of Seventy Evangelists.

He was accepted by church membership as a general authority and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on March 31, 2012.

Category: Members of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Historically, the First Quorum of the Seventy came into being in 1835 when seven men were set apart as the First Seven Presidents of the Seventy.

In 1975, under the direction of church president Spencer W. Kimball, the First Quorum of the Seventy was reconstituted.

The First Quorum was composed of the former members of the First Council of the Seventy as well as new individuals selected by Kimball.

In 1976, the First Council of the Seventy, the First Quorum of the Seventy, and the Assistants to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were all merged into a new First Quorum of the Seventy under a seven-member Presidency of the Seventy.

* 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

* 1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.

* August 8 – During a meeting held in Nauvoo, the Quorum of the Twelve, headed by Brigham Young, is chosen as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

However since Taylor was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve before the Mormons even arrived in Utah, and was the wounded survivor of the mob attack that killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and served at various times as speaker of the Utah Territorial Legislature, naming the town after Taylor at any point from 1847 on is quite believable.

Quorum sensing is a system of stimulus and response correlated to population density.

Quorum sensing can function as a decision-making process in any decentralized system, as long as individual components have: ( a ) a means of assessing the number of other components they interact with and ( b ) a standard response once a threshold number of components is detected.

As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Oaks is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator.

By date of ordination, he is the fourth senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, preceded by Russell M. Nelson, L. Tom Perry, and quorum president Boyd K. Packer.

In the House of Representatives, the quorum was amended down to one-fifth by the House of Representatives ( Quorum ) Act 1989, which means the quorum of the current House of 150 MPs is 30 MPs.

In the senate, the quorum was amended down to one-quarter by the Senate ( Quorum ) Act 1991, so 19 senators is a quorum.

Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution provides that " Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business ..." Therefore in both the House of Representatives and the Senate a quorum is a simple majority of their respective members.

President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is a priesthood calling in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

In general, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve is the most senior Apostle in the church, aside from the President of the Church.

When the President of the Church dies, it is the President of the Quorum of the Twelve who becomes the new Church President.

The current President of the Quorum of the Twelve is Boyd K. Packer.

The President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is the priesthood leader of the members of the Quorum.

When adherents refer to the President of the Quorum of the Twelve, his name is usually prefaced by the honorific title " President ".

If the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is asked to become a counselor in the First Presidency, the President of the Quorum retains that title but is not numbered among the Twelve, and the most senior Apostle who is not in the First Presidency is named Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

The Quorum of Twelve are primarily responsible for guiding the spiritual growth and development of the church in general, acting as advisers to key operating committees.

As president of the Priests Quorum, he is responsible for new member baptisms and missionary work in the ward.

Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are responsible for assigning missionaries to a particular mission.

In 1861, the Quorum Court made provisions for the construction of a brick courthouse and appointed Col. W. H. Halliburton commissioner to secure plans and bids for its construction.

The Quorum of the Twelve provided the newspapers with a one-sentence announcement, stating that the ground for excommunication was violation of the Law of Chastity, which any practice of post-Manifesto polygamy constituted.

Quorum sensing can be a useful tool for improving the function of self-organizing networks such as the SECOAS ( Self-Organizing Collegiate Sensor ) environmental monitoring system.

Snow followed this advice and since then every interval between the death of the President of the Church and the ordination of a new President has been less than two weeks, just long enough to mourn the death of the President of the Church and complete his funeral services, and also for the Quorum of the Twelve to nominate and sustain the President of the Twelve and for the new president to choose his counselors in the First Presidency.

* LDS Newsroom: Official biographies for leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: biographical sketches of current members of the Quorum

Stake presidents were no longer allowed to recommend candidates for the ordinance, that privilege falling only to members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.

However, Brigham Young presided over the church for three years as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve before the First Presidency was reconstituted after the death of Joseph Smith.

However, on April 5, 1900, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve unanimously decided that the date an individual became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve was the relevant date for succession purposes, not the date an individual was ordained as an apostle.

Likewise, elders and all church officials ( including the Church Presidency and Quorum of Apostles ) are volunteers and receive no financial remuneration for their activities.

Foreseeing this development, Smith had provided a means for selected priesthood holders to reorganize his church at an appropriate future time: a " Quorum of Seven.

He baptized Teresa " Terry " Pries, whom he had been dating for several years and in 1967 and their marriage in the Salt Lake Temple was performed by Spencer W. Kimball, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

While president of the Quorum of the Twelve, he had major health problems for the remainder of his life, including a heart attack, broken ribs from a fall at general conference, heart bypass surgery, bleeding ulcers, and a kidney failure that revived.

Ossie had been introduced to Pollock at his RCA show by Quorum's backer at the behest of Hockney and so taken with the young designer was she that she immediately decided to bring him in as co designer for Quorum.

Brigham Young, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, sent Elder Jesse C. Little to Washington, D. C., to seek assistance from the federal government for the Mormon Pioneers fleeing for their lives from the mobs of Illinois.

At the time of his release from this position he had already been president of the Quorum of the Twelve for over a decade.

In 1984, some seventies were appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy who were not to serve for life, but for terms of several years.

Although he also pursued a political career, he began full-time work for the church when he was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1941.

In 1969, after McKay's health failed, and some others within the church leadership thought the doctrinal basis for the exclusion of people of African ancestry from the priesthood was shaky, the remaining First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ( minus Harold B. Lee, who was traveling ) voted to rescind the racial exclusion policy ; however, that vote was reversed when Lee returned and called for a re-vote, arguing that the policy could not be changed without a revelation.