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Rachel Cannon

BYU Magazine, Alumni News


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BYU Connections with Our Prophet and Apostles
We have often heard that Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder Jeffery R. Holland are previous
presidents of BYU, but are President Thomas S. Monson and other current apostles also
connected to BYU?
Nine of the current fifteen have one or more connections as graduates of BYU,
recipients of BYU honorary degrees, or members of BYUs Board of Trustees. The board
is chaired by the First Presidency and often has three apostles among its members. Three
have received honorary doctorate degrees: Thomas S. Monson, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, and
Russell M. Nelson. Six are graduates: Thomas S. Monson, Dallin H. Oaks, Jeffery R.
Holland, David A. Bednar, D. Todd Christofferson, and Neil L. Andersen. Though the
three new apostles do not currently have any connections, all three apostles who most
recently passed away did have at least one of these connections.

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