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President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of President Hinckley was the 15th president in the year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at p.

Sunday night from causes incident to age. Members of his family were at his bedside. President Hinckley was known, even at the age of 97, as a tireless leader who always put in a full day at the office and traveled extensively around the world to mix with Church members, now numbering 13 million in nations. His quick wit and humor, combined with an eloquent style at the pulpit, made him one of the most loved of modern Church leaders.

During the Salt Lake Olympics of , his request that the Church refrain from proselytizing visitors was credited by media with generating much of the goodwill that flowed to the Church from the international event. In calling for temples to be in operation before the end of the year , the Church president committed the Church to a massive temple-building program.

In — years after the Church was organized by its founder, Joseph Smith — the Church had 56 operating temples.