Correction, Nov. 1, 2012: This chart originally depicted the general officers for the LDS primary as men. They're women. Over its nearly two-century history, the LDS church has developed a ...

Johnson, 52 years old, was appointed as the first African-American General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday, according to a press release.

"This morning, James J. Hamula was released as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, following church disciplinary action by the First Presidency and ...

Hamula of the First Quorum of the Seventy was released from his calling as a general authority and also excommunicated from the Church. It is the first time a top LDS leader has been ...