Apostles ordained per five-year intervals
Five-year period Apostles ordained Apostles
1830-1834 2 Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery 1835-1839 17 Brigham Young, Heber C Kimball, Lyman Johnson, David W Patten, Orson Hyde, William E M'Lellin, Luke Johnson, William B Smith, John F Boynton, Parley P Pratt, Thomas B Marsh, Orson Pratt, Hyrum Smith, John E Page, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, George A Smith 1840-1844 3 Willard Richards, Lyman Wight, Amasa M Lyman 1845-1849 5 Ezra T Benson, Charles C Rich, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D Richards 1850-1854 1 Jedediah M Grant 1855-1859 1 Daniel H Wells 1860-1864 4 George Q Cannon, Joseph A Young, Brigham Young Jr, John W Young 1865-1869 1 Joseph F Smith 1870-1874 1 Albert Carrington 1875-1879 1 Moses Thatcher 1880-1884 5 Francis M Lyman, John H Smith, George Teasdale, Heber J Grant, John W Taylor 1885-1889 3 Marriner W Merrill, Anthon H Lund, Abraham H Cannon 1890-1894 0 1895-1899 3 Matthias F Cowley, Abraham O Woodruff, Rudger Clawson 1900-1904 4 Reed Smoot, Hyrum M Smith, George A Smith, Charles W Penrose 1905-1909 4 George F Richards, Orson F Whitney, David O McKay, Anthony W Ivins 1910-1914 2 Joseph Fielding Smith, James E Talmage 1915-1919 3 Stephen L Richards, Richard R Lyman, Melvin J Ballard 1920-1924 1 John A Widtsoe 1925-1929 0 1930-1934 4 Joseph F Merrill, Charles A Callis, J Reuben Clark, Alonzo A Hinckley 1935-1939 2 Albert E Bowen, Sylvester Q Cannon 1940-1944 4 Harold B Lee, Spencer W Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, Mark E Petersen 1945-1949 2 Matthew Cowley, Henry D Moyle 1950-1954 6 Delbert L Stapley, Marion G Romney, LeGrand Richards, Adam S Bennion, Richard L Evans, George Q Morris 1955-1959 2 Hugh B Brown, Howard W Hunter 1960-1964 3 Gordon B Hinckley, N Eldon Tanner, Thomas S Monson 1965-1969 1 Alvin R Dyer 1970-1974 4 Boyd K Packer, Marvin J Ashton, Bruce R McConkie, L Tom Perry 1975-1979 2 David B Haight, James E Faust 1980-1984 3 Neal A Maxwell, Russell M Nelson, Dallin H Oaks 1985-1989 3 M Russell Ballard, Joseph B Wirthlin, Richard G Scott 1990-1994 2 Robert D Hales, Jeffrey R Holland 1995-1999 1 Henry B Eyring 2000-2004 2 Dieter F Uchtdorf, David A Bednar 2005-2009 3 Quentin L Cook, D Todd Christofferson, Neil L Andersen 2010-2014 0 2015-2019 5 Ronald A Rasband, Gary E Stevenson, Dale G Renlund, Gerrit W Gong, Ulisses Soares 2020-2024 1 Patrick Kearon 2025-2029 0 None thus far
TOTAL APOSTLES ORDAINED 111
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