SALT LAKE CITY — Dallin H. Oaks was named the new president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tuesday.
Oaks, 93, is the longest-tenured member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church's top body of leaders.
He selected Henry B. Eyring and D. Todd Christofferson to serve as his counselors in the First Presidency.
Oaks was selected to preside over the church after the passing of President Russell M. Nelson last month.
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Oaks was the president of Brigham Young University from 1971 to 1980, and a Utah Supreme Court justice from 1980 until 1984, when he became an apostle.
Eyring, 92, has been an apostle since 1995, and a member of the First Presidency since 2007 — serving under three presidents: Nelson, Thomas S. Monson and Gordon B. Hinckley.
Christofferson, 80, has been in the Quorum of the Twelve since 2008.
Jeffrey R. Holland, the most senior apostle behind Oaks, will serve as the acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He has been serving since 1994.
