DC 123:23b "As a traveling, presiding council, your quorum has the active supervision and presidency, under the First Presidency, over the entire field of
ministerial labor, and control over districts, branches, and the ministry as a whole and as church organizations, and not as local presiding officers in these several organizations;
DC 125:4a He is to be free from responsibility--
ministerial--as a traveling minister, and from the care of the local branch or church and district affairs.
DC 125:4b When traveling and preaching, holding revival meetings, he is to labor in connection with the branch and district officers, not subject to the
ministerial control of the missionary in charge, except he should transcend his bounds and teach false doctrine or be found in transgression.
DC 130:4a To fill the vacancies caused by the release of these elders from the apostolic quorum, Elders James E. Kelley, William M. Aylor, Paul M. Hanson, and James A. Gillen may be chosen and ordained as apostles to take with others of the quorum active oversight of the labors in the
ministerial field.
DC 136:3a The movements toward better understanding of
ministerial responsibilities, duties, and goals, and toward unity of endeavor in teaching, preaching, evangelizing, and the perfecting of the Saints, are pleasing to the Lord.
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