- Joseph L. Wirthlin
Joseph Leopold Wirthlin (
14 August 1893 –25 January 1965 ) was the eighth presiding bishop ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).Wirthlin was born in
Salt Lake City ,Utah . He served as a missionary in the Swiss–German Mission of the church in 1913 and 1914. He served as bishop of the Salt Lake 33rd Ward in the Liberty Stake from 1928 to 1935. OnOctober 27 ,1935 the Liberty Stake was split and the Bonneville Stake was organized with Wirthlin as its first president. ["Deseret News Church Almanac", 2005 ed., p. 244.] He was set apart byJoseph Fielding Smith .Wirthlin became a
general authority in 1938 when he was called as a counselor to Presiding BishopLeGrand Richards . In 1952, church presidentDavid O. McKay called Wirthlin to be the eighth Presiding Bishop in church history. Wirthlin calledThorpe B. Isaacson andCarl W. Buehner as his counselors. Wirthlin and his counselors served as the presiding bishopric of the church until they were released in 1961.Wirthlin and his wife Madeline Bitner were the parents of five children, including
Joseph B. Wirthlin , a current member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Their other children are Judith Wirthlin Parker, Gwendolyn Wirthlin McConkie, Richard B. Wirthlin, a former general authority, and David Bitner Wirthlin, current president of the church'sNauvoo Illinois Temple .ee also
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Council on the Disposition of the Tithes References
External links
* [http://www.gapages.com/wirthjl1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Joseph L. Wirthlin]
succession box
title= Presiding Bishop,The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
years= 1952—1961
before=LeGrand Richards
after=John H. Vandenburg
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