Mormon church names president
From Times Wire Reports
Thomas Monson, a longtime senior leader of the Mormon church in Salt Lake City, was officially named its 16th president at age 80.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the faith is officially known, has a global membership of 13 million, more than half of whom reside outside the United States, its country of origin.
Monson takes over from Gordon Hinckley, who died Jan. 27 at age 97 after leading the church since 1995. Monson had been Hinckley’s second-in-command.
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