Paul B. Pieper

Paul Bowen Pieper (born 1957-10-07) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2005. Pieper was the first leader of the LDS Church in Kazakhstan.

Pieper was born in Pocatello, Idaho, United States. As a young man, he served as a missionary for the LDS Church in the Mexico Monterrey Mission of the church, where he became fluent in Spanish. He studied at Brigham Young University and received a bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctor from the University of Utah.

In the late 1990s, Pieper and his family moved to Kazakhstan, where he learned to speak Russian while working for a law firm in international trade law. Pieper became the branch president and the first-ever leader of the LDS Church in Kazakhstan. By the end of 2003, the Piepers had assisted approximately 50 Kazakhstani people in being baptized into the LDS Church.

In 2004, Pieper was asked by the church to be the president of the Russia St. Petersburg Mission of the church. In April 2005, he was added to the church's First Quorum of the Seventy and became a general authority of the church. He is currently the president of the church's Europe East Area.

On 23 June 2007, Pieper presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the LDS Church's planned Kiev Ukraine Temple in Kiev, Ukraine.

References

* [http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=5ccfd04a6921c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “Elder Paul B. Pieper of the Seventy,”] "Ensign, May 2005, 124
* "Paul B. Pieper Biography," "Church News", 2005-06-04

External links

* [http://gapages.com/piepepb1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Paul B. Pieper]