Paul E. Koelliker

Paul Edward Koelliker (born March 12, 1943) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2005. Koelliker was also the executive director of the church's temple department. Since 2007, he has been a counselor to the president of the Africa Southeast Area of the church.

Biography

Koelliker was born in Pittsburg, California. As a young man, he was an LDS Church missionary in West Berlin, Germany. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Utah.

Koelliker and his wife, the former Freda Ann Neilson, are the parents of seven children.

Prior to becoming a general authority, Koelliker worked in several managerial positions for the LDS Church including serving as the managing director of the temple department from 1997 through 2005, thus being closely involved with the large increase in the number of temples during LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley's administration.

In the LDS Church, Koelliker has also been an elders quorum president, a bishop, and the president of the Salt Lake Hillside Stake. In April 2005, Koelliker became a member of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy.

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References

* "Church News", March 23, 1996; May 28, 2005; June 9, 2007.
* [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=5ccfd04a6921c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “Elder Paul E. Koelliker Of the Seventy,”] "Ensign", May 2005, p. 124
* "Deseret Morning News 2008 Church Almanac" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News) p. 48

External links

* [http://gapages.com/koellpe1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Paul E. Koelliker]