Henry B. Eyring

LDSApostleshipinfo
English name =Henry B. Eyring
birth_name=Henry Bennion Eyring
birth_date=birth date and age|1933|05|31
birthplace=Princeton, New Jersey
death_date=
deathplace=
president_who_called=Gordon B. Hinckley
apostledate=death date and age|1995|04|06|1933|05|31
ordination_reason=Death of Howard W. Hunter; reorganization of First Presidency
end_date=
end_reason=
reorganization=

Henry Bennion Eyring (born May 31 1933) is an American educational administrator and religious leader who is First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Eyring was the Second Counselor to Gordon B. Hinckley in the First Presidency from October 6, 2007 until Hinckley's death on January 27, 2008. On February 3, 2008, Eyring was called to be the First Counselor to Thomas S. Monson in the First Presidency, serving with Second Counselor Dieter F. Uchtdorf.

Eyring has also served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the presiding bishopric, First Quorum of the Seventy, and as Commissioner of Church Education of the LDS Church.

Biography

Eyring was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the second child of Henry Eyring, the dean of the graduate school at the University of Utah and president of the American Chemical Society, and his wife Mildred Bennion.

Eyring lived in Princeton until his early teenage years when his father took a post at the University of Utah and the family moved to Salt Lake City.

He spent two years in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eyring received his B.S. in physics from the University of Utah. He went on to earn a Masters and Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard Business School before embarking on a career in academia.

Eyring has served twice as Commissioner of Church Education, first from September 1980 to April 1985 and most recently from September 1992 to January 2005, when he was replaced by W. Rolfe Kerr. [ [http://www.lds.org/newsroom/showrelease/0,15503,4028-1-20802,00.html Newsroom - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ] ] Eyring was an associate professor of business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1962 to 1971. [ [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5193935.html"Houston Chronicle Article"] ] He was also a Sloan Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Eyring served as president of Ricks College from 1971 to 1977, as a counselor to Presiding Bishop Robert D. Hales from 1985 to 1992, and as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy between 1992 and 1995.

Following the death of Church President Howard W. Hunter, Eyring was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the church on April 1, 1995 and ordained an apostle later that same week.

Eyring was sustained as the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the church on October 6, 2007, [" [http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=48a7ce401e175110VgnVCM100000176f620aRCRD&vgnextchannel=9ae411154963d010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD Church President Names New Leaders] ." "LDS Newsroom". October 6, 2007.] filling the vacancy left by the death of President James E. Faust on August 10, 2007. He was sustained as the First Counselor in the First Presidency of the church on February 3, 2008, filling the vacancy created in that position when Thomas S. Monson was announced as the President of the Church on February 4th, 2008. The new First Presidency was set apart and ordained the day before. ["http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/thomas-s-monson-named-16th-church-president"]

Family

Henry B. Eyring and wife Kathleen Johnson have six children.

Published works

*cite book
author=Eyring, Henry B.
year=2004
title=To Draw Closer to God: A Collection of Discourses
publisher=Deseret Book Company
id=ISBN 1-59038-322-2
*cite book
author=---
year=2003
title=Go Forth to Serve
publisher=Deseret Book Company
id=ISBN 1-57008-946-9
*cite book
author=---
year=2002
title=Because He First Loved Us
publisher=Deseret Book Company
id=ISBN 1-57008-924-8
*cite book
author=---
year=1995
title=On Becoming a Disciple-Scholar: Lectures presented at the Brigham Young University Honors Program (Discipline and discipleship lecture series)
publisher=Bookcraft
id=ISBN 1-57008-198-0

ee also

* Church Educational System
* Council on the Disposition of the Tithes
* Glenn L. Pace : counselor with Eyring in the presiding bishopric

Notes

References

* [http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c0d6790fbf69f010VgnVCM100000176f620aRCRD&vgnextchannel=67509c643826e010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD Official LDS Church biography]
*cite book
author=Lund, Gerald N.
year=Sep. 1995
title= [http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Liahona/1996.htm/liahona%20april%201996.htm/elder%20henry%20b.%20eyring%20molded%20by%20defining%20influences%20.htm Elder Henry B. Eyring: Molded by “Defining Influences”]
publisher="Ensign"
id=p. 10

External links

* [http://www.gapages.com/eyrinhb1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Henry B. Eyring]