Patrick Kearon
Patrick Kearon (born 18 July 1961) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2010 and a member of the Presidency of the Seventy since August 2017. On August 1, 2020, Kearon became the senior president of the seventy, becoming the first in this role to have been born outside the United States since the reconstitution of the Presidency of the Seventy in 1975. Early life and biography Kearon was born in Carlisle, England. He was partly raised in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked. He was baptized into the LDS Church on Christmas Eve 1987. He was introduced to the church when he stayed with an LDS family in California; two years later, he met LDS missionaries in London and began learning about the church. Kearon has worked in transportation, real estate, and related fields. LDS Church service In the LDS Church, Kearon has been the president of the Bristol England Stake and an area seventy. Kearon delivered his first general conference address in October 2010 and spoke of being healed spiritually through the atonement of Jesus Christ. At the time of his call as a general authority, Kearon was