Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf (b. 6 November 1940) was a German aviator and is now a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Uchtdorf was born to ethnic Germans Karl Albert Uchtdorf and Hildegard Else Opelt in Moravská Ostrava, which at the time was in the Nazi-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Ostrava, Czech Republic).^[1]

Uchtdorf first entered the aviation industry as a pilot, then became a chief pilot and later an executive for Lufthansa Airlines prior to his calling on April 7 1996 to serve in the First Quorum of Seventy of the LDS Church.^[2]

Uchtdorf was sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on 2 October, 2004. He was ordained an apostle on 7 October 2004 by Church President Gordon B. Hinckley. Uchtdorf and David A. Bednar were called to fill the vacancies created by the July 2004 deaths of quorum members David B. Haight and Neal A. Maxwell.^[3] Although Uchtdorf is the 101st person to hold the apostleship since the LDS Church was organized in 1830, he is only the eleventh apostle to be born outside the United States.^[4] As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Uchtdorf is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator. He is the first German apostle in church history and was the first born outside of North America since the death of John A. Widtsoe in 1952.

Uchtdorf and his wife, Harriet Reich Uchtdorf, have two children.

[edit] See also

• Council on the Disposition of the Tithes

[edit] References

• LDS Church biography
• Apostles born outside the United States

Preceded by Henry B. Eyring

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles October 7, 2004—

Succeeded by David A. Bednar

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Packer • Perry • Nelson • Oaks • Ballard • Wirthlin • Scott • Hales • Holland • Uchtdorf • Bednar • Cook

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