On Sunday, in the Salt Lake Temple, Utah, “in a sweet, sacred experience in which the Lord's will was clearly manifested” – according to the later announcement – the “Quorum of the Twelve Apostles” laid hands on Russell M Nelson and ordained him the new leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, (aka the Mormons).
He and the apostles may have resembled the board members of an old-style bank – white middle-aged men in suits – but to the faithful, Mr Nelson was following in an unbroken line of men like his predecessor, the late Thomas S Monson. “A giant of a man, a prophet of God,” Mr Nelson called him.
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