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 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                2            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                0

TOTAL APOSTLES ORDAINED   110
NOTE: This list includes only those apostles who served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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