“All leaders in the Lord's Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.”

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About Russell M. Nelson

American religious leader and surgeon

Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon. He served as the seventeenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his death in 2025. Before that, Nelson spent nearly thirty-four years in the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, leading that quorum from 2015 to 2018. As church president, he was regarded by the church as the prophet, seer, and revelator.

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