President Uchtdorf celebrating birthday

SALT LAKE CITY — President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will celebrate his 70th birthday on Saturday.

Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf was born to Karl Albert and Hilde Else Opelt Uchtdorf on Nov. 6, 1940, in M?risch-Ostrau, Czechoslovakia.

President Uchtdorf was named second counselor in the First Presidency on Feb. 4, 2008, and sustained to that position on April 5, 2008.

He was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve on Oct. 2, 2004, and ordained an apostle on Oct. 7, 2004, at age 63.

He had been sustained to the Presidency of the Seventy on Oct. 5, 2002. His call to the First Quorum of the Seventy came in 1996, and his call to the Second Quorum of the Seventy was in 1994.

Prior to his call as a general authority, he was senior vice president for flight operations and chief pilot for Lufthansa German Airlines.

He had also served as president of the Frankfurt Germany Stake and later the Mannheim Germany Stake.

— Lynn Arave.