Paul V. Johnson

Paul Vere Johnson (born 24 June 1954) has been the sixteenth Commissioner of Church Education of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since August 2008 and a general authority of the church since 2005. Johnson became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on April 2, 2005, subsequent to a call as an area seventy in 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. [cite web |url=http://www.mormontimes.com/WC_headquarters.php?id=1259 |title=First Presidency Appoints New CES Commissioner |accessdate=2008-06-09 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=MormonTimes.com |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

Johnson was born in Gainesville, Florida, and was raised in Logan, Utah. [http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f318118dd536c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=78348fbe352fe010VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1 “Elder Paul V. Johnson Of the Seventy,”] "Liahona", May 2005, p. 123.] As a young man, he was an LDS Church missionary in Norway, after which he earned degrees from Brigham Young University and Utah State University.

Johnson suffers from Crohn's disease.cite web |url=http://www.gapages.com/johnspv1.htm |title=Paul V. Johnson |accessdate=2008-06-09 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Grampa Bill |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

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