Numbers of apostles ordained to the apostleship by

Presidents of the Church

 

Following is a listing of the presidents of the Church and the number and names of apostles that they actually ordained to the apostleship.

 

 

       Prophet           Number of apostles ordained      Names of the apostles ordained

 

    Joseph Smith, Jr                 3                    Parley P Pratt, Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight

 

    Brigham Young                   16                    John Page, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards,

                                                          Amasa Lyman, Ezra T Benson, Charles C Rich, Erastus Snow,

                                                          Jedediah Grant, Daniel Wells, George Q Cannon, John A Young,

                                                          Brigham Young Jr, John Young, Joseph F Smith, Albert Carrington

  

    John Taylor                      4                    Moses Thatcher, Francis Lyman, George Teasdale, John W Taylor

 

    Wilford Woodruff                 3                    John Smith, Marriner W Merrill, Abraham O Woodruff

 

    Lorenzo Snow                     2                    Rudger Clawson, Reed Smoot

 

    Joseph F Smith                  12                    Abraham Cannon, Hyrum M Smith, George A Smith, Charles Penrose,

                                                          George Richards, Orson F Whitney, David McKay, Anthony W Ivins,

                                                          Joseph F Smith, James Talmage, Stephen Richards, Richard Lyman

 

    Heber J Grant                   12                    Melvin Ballard, John Widstoe, Joseph Merrill, Charles Callis,

                                                          J Reuben Clark, Alonzo Hinckley, Albert Bowen, Sylvester Cannon,

                                                          Harold B Lee, Spencer Kimball, Ezra T Benson, Mark E Peterson

 

    George Albert Smith              3                    Matthew Cowley, Henry D Moyle, Delbert Stapley

 

    David O McKay                   10                    Marion Romney, LeGrand Richards, Adam Bennion, Richard L Evans,

                                                          George Morris, Hugh B Brown, Howard W Hunter, Gordon B Hinckley,

                                                          N Eldon Tanner, Alvin R Dyer

 

    Joseph Fielding Smith            2                    Thomas S Monson, Boyd K Packer

 

    Harold B Lee                     2                    Marvin J Ashton, Bruce R McConkie

 

    Spencer W Kimball                4                    L Tom Perry, David B Haight, James E Faust, Neal A Maxwell

 

    Ezra Taft Benson                 0

 

    Howard W Hunter                  1                    Jeffrey R Holland

 

    Gordon B Hinckley                8                    Russell M Nelson, Dallin Oaks, M Russell Ballard, Robert Hales,

                                                          Henry B Eyring, Dieter F Uchtdorf, David Bednar, Quentin L Cook

 

    Thomas S Monson                  2                    D Todd Christofferson, Neil L Andersen

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                                    84

 

 

(Note:  As seen above, Brigham Young ordained the greatest number of apostles, followed by Joseph F Smith and Heber J Grant.

 President Benson is the only President of the Church who did not ordain an apostle to the apostleship.)

 

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