Michael B. Strong

Elder Michael B. Strong was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the April 2024 general conference. At the time of his call, he had been serving as a member of the Twelfth Quorum of the Seventy in the Utah Area. He is currently serving in the Philippines Area Presidency.

Elder Strong has served in a number of Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Bolivia Cochabamba Mission, bishop, stake president, and president of the Perú Lima Central Mission from 2018 to 2021.

Elder Strong received a bachelor of science degree in microbiology and a minor in chemistry from Brigham Young University in 1989 and a medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1993. He worked both as a physician and also as the chief medical information officer for the University of Utah.

Michael Brent Strong was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 6, 1965. He married Cristin Connelly in 1987. They are the parents of six children.