Jorge F. Zeballos

Jorge Fernando Zeballos (born 19 July 1955) has been a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2008. He is the first Chilean to be a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and only the second Chilean to serve as a general authority of the LDS Church. The first was Eduardo Ayala.

Zeballos was born in Ovalle, Chile. He joined the LDS Church when he was twelve and later served as a missionary for the church in Concepcion. [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=56ac84d4a0a0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 "Area Authority in Chile"] , "Ensign", Mar. 1999, pp. 68–69.] Zebellos and his wife Carmen Gloria Valenzuela traveled to São Paulo, Brazil to marry in the São Paulo Brazil Temple. The Zeballoses now have five children.

Zeballos holds a degree in civil engineering from Santa Maria University and an MBA from Brigham Young University.

Zeballos worked as a mining engineer and later as a manager of corporate affairs for a mining company before his call to full-time church service. For a time he mangaged corporate affairs for Minera Escondida Limitada, which was at that point the biggest copper-producing mine in the world.

Zeballos became an area authority of the LDS Church in 1995. He was released released from this position in October 2004.

At the time of his call as a general authority, Zeballos was serving as the president of the Chile Concepción South Mission of the LDS Church.

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* [http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f318118dd536c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=e975279c7c699110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&hideNav=1 “Elder Jorge A. Zeballos,”] "Liahona", May 2008, p. 140
*"Church News", August 5, 1995; March 25, 2006; April 12, 2008