Richard R. Lyman, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Richard R. Lyman

American Mormon apostle

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1870

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1963

Profession: missionary

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Richard Roswell Lyman (November 23, 1870 – December 31, 1963) was an American engineer and religious leader who was an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1918 to 1943. Lyman is often noted as the most recent LDS Church apostle to have been excommunicated.
In 1943, J.
Reuben Clark, the first counselor in the LDS church's First Presidency and the church's de facto leader due to church president Heber J.
Grant's poor health, became aware that Lyman had for a number of years been in an intimate relationship with a woman he had earlier been assigned to counsel.
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles convened a disciplinary council to hear the case and Lyman's explanation, after which he was immediately excommunicated.
Lyman was rebaptized in 1954 at age 83, and his full priesthood blessings were restored posthumously in 1970.