Jeffrey R. Holland
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Jeffrey Roy Holland (born December 3,1940) was ordained an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on June 23, 1994, following the death of President Ezra Taft Benson, and sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 1, 1994. Other prominent service in the Church pre-dating his ordination as an Apostle included serving as president of Brigham Young University and as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
He was the youngest Apostle in the Church from his ordination by President Howard W. Hunter until the sustaining of David A. Bednar ten years later, being eight years younger than Apostles Dallin H. Oaks (also a former president of BYU) and Robert D. Hales, at that time the only Apostles born after 1928. In 2002, Holland and Oaks were both sent to preside personally over the Church's area presidencies in foreign countries: Oaks to the Philippines and Holland to Chile. This calling, originally planned for a year, was later extended to two years. In an interview, Holland pledged to involve himself deeply in the local congregations that he supervised.
Elder Holland and his wife, the former Patricia Terry, have three grown children.