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At the church's April 1995 [[General Conference (LDS Church)|general conference]], Hinckley announced the creation of a new leadership position known as the '''[[List of area seventies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|area authority]]'''.<ref>[[Gordon B. Hinckley]], [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1995/05/this-work-is-concerned-with-people?lang=eng “This Work Is Concerned with People”], ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', May 1995, p. 51.</ref> The area authorities were to replace the [[regional representatives of the Twelve|regional representatives]] who had served as bridge of leadership between the general authorities and the local [[Stake president|stake]] and [[mission president]]s. In 1997, it was decided that area authorities would be ordained to the office of seventy. As a result, these area authorities were renamed '''area authority seventies''', and the church announced that these new seventies would become members of the newly created Third, Fourth, and Fifth Quorums of the Seventy.<ref>[[Gordon B. Hinckley]], [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1997/05/may-we-be-faithful-and-true?lang=eng “May We Be Faithful and True”], ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', May 1997, p. 4.</ref> Later, the title "area authority seventy" was shortened to '''area seventy''', which is the title currently in use.
Area seventies serve in the various geographic regions of the world called ''[[Area (LDS Church)|areas]]'' in which the church is governed by area presidencies. An international area presidency is typically composed of members of the First and Second Quorums of the Seventy (with the most recent exception, beginning in April 2022, being the Europe East Area), while areas in the United States and Canada are directed by a member of the [[Presidency of the Seventy]].<ref>In some cases, an area seventy may be called as a counselor to an area president; by reverse exception, in the early 2000s, there were three apostles who served as area presidents: L. Tom Perry (Europe), Dallin H. Oaks (Philippines), and Jeffrey R. Holland (Chile).</ref>
In 2004, the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy was divided to create the Sixth Quorum.<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2004/07/news-of-the-church/first-presidency-announces-creation-of-the-sixth-quorum-of-the-seventy?lang=eng “First Presidency Announces Creation of the Sixth Quorum of the Seventy”], ''[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]'', July 2004, p. 74.</ref>
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