Mormon former Utah state Supreme Court Justice Dallin H Oaks was chosen to succeed the recently embalmed Russell M Nelson to lead the Mormon Church on Tuesday, the AP reports to the surprise however many who thought the Latter Day Saints might mix it up this time and pick a Catholic bishop or even a top Orthodox rabbi to take the helm for the church’s 17 million faithful.
The Mormon Church was founded in the 1820s and has produced important cultural touchstones like the hit TLC reality series Sister Wives, the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, and Mitt Romney.