Paul V. Johnson

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For other persons of the same name, see Paul Johnson.

Paul Vere Johnson (born 24 June 1954) has been asked to become the sixteenth Commissioner of Church Education of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Johnson was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy on April 2, 2005, subsequent to a call to the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy in June 2003. On June 8, 2008, the church's First Presidency appointed him commissioner, effective August 1, 2008.[1]

Johnson was born in Gainesville, Florida, and was raised in Logan, Utah.[2] As a young man, he was an LDS Church missionary in Norway,[3] after which he earned degrees from Brigham Young University and Utah State University.[2]

Johnson suffers from Crohn's disease.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ First Presidency Appoints New CES Commissioner. MormonTimes.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  2. ^ a b “Elder Paul V. Johnson Of the Seventy,” Liahona, May 2005, p. 123.
  3. ^ a b Paul V. Johnson. Grampa Bill. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
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