Elder Gérald Caussé: Photos and facts about the church’s newest apostle
Elder Caussé, 62, was born in Bordeaux, France, and once worked as managing director of Pomona, France’s largest food distributor
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Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé plays the piano at a devotional at the Missionary Training Center in Provo on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. Megan Nielsen, Deseret News
Elder Gérald Caussé, 62, was ordained an apostle by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday.
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The native of France is the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve and the 104th apostle in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ.
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Presiding Bishop Gerald Causse waves goodby to the audience following his keynote address on the main stage at the 2025 YSA Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Ut., Friday, August 29, 2025. | Brian Nicholson for the Deseret
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Presiding Bishop Gerald Causse plays an arrangement of “Come, Come Ye Saints,” following his keynote address on the main stage at the 2025 YSA Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Ut., Friday, August 29, 2025. | Brian Nicholson for the Deseret
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Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with his wife, Sister Valerie Babin Caussé, left, speaks with a guest at the Deseret News’ 175th anniversary celebration at The Commercial Club in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Gérald Caussé, presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new 111 Main office building in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. | Hans Koepsell, Deseret News
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The Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable and several religious leaders in the Salt Lake Valley — including Bishop Gérald Caussé, the Church's Presiding Bishop — released a statement, titled "Homelessness, Compassion, and Civility," on April 13. Bishop Caussé walks outside of the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret News
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Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé attends the dedication of the new LDS Welfare Services complex in Cedar City, Utah, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. | LDS Church
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Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participate in the cornerstone ceremony of the Paris France Temple on May 21, 2017. From left are Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé; Elder Paul V. Johnson, General Authority Seventy; President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency; and Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. | Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News
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Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé speaks during a BYU-Idaho devotional held in the BYU-Idaho Center on May 10, 2016 | Tyler Rickenbach
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Bishop Gérald Caussé and his wife, Sister Jan Caussé in the Philippines. | IRI
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Presiding Bishop, Gérald Caussé, speaks to BYU-Idaho students during the campus devotional held in the BYU-Idaho Center on May 10. | Ryan Chase
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The audience listens to Gérald Jean Caussé First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, as he speaks at a CES devotional for young adults ages 18 through 30, both married and single in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Bishop Gérald Caussé, presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, greets Bob Abrams, former New York attorney general, at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 9, 2022. The J. Reuben Clark Law Society is honoring Abrams with the Thomas L. Kane Award. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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Bishop Gérald Caussé, presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, talks with Thurl Bailey at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City before the “Music & the Spoken Word” broadcast on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Presiding Bishopric Gérald Caussé, W. Christopher Waddell and L. Todd Budge tour the Layton Utah Temple in Layton on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Bishop W. Christopher Waddell, Bishop Gérald Caussé, and Bishop Todd Budge greet one another prior to a meeting at the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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From left, Presiding Bishop Gérald Jean Caussé, second counselor Bishop Todd Budge and first counselor Bishop Christopher Waddell pray before an interview at the Bishop’s Storehouse at Welfare Square in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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From left, second counselor Bishop Todd Budge, Presiding Bishop Gérald Jean Caussé and first counselor Bishop Christopher Waddell tour the stockroom at the Bishop’s Storehouse at Welfare Square in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Bishop Gérald Caussé, left, escorts President Donald Trump on a tour of Welfare Square on Dec. 4, 2017. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Presiding Bishop Gérald Jean Caussé meets Sister Rachel Baggaley at the Bishop’s Storehouse at Welfare Square in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Sister Baggaley served her mission at the storehouse and she currently volunteers there. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé tours the new Global Distribution Services Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 8, 2023. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé, Church historian Emily Utt, Elder Larry Wilson and Mark Woodruff speak prior to the Angel Moroni being raised atop the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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From left: Elder Ricardo P. Giménez, General Authority Seventy and second counselor in the North America Central Area, and his wife, Sister Catherine Giménez; Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé and his wife, Sister Valérie Caussé; Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Mary Cook; Elder James R. Rasband, General Authority Seventy and assistant executive director of the Temple Department and his wife, Sister Mary Rasband, pose for photos outside the Casper Wyoming Temple following the dedication on Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Bishop Gérald Caussé, a counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks as he’s interviewed after a performance as part of The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square’s “Songs of Hope” tour held at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida, on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. | Isaac Hale, Deseret News
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Bishop Gérald Caussé, Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks during to the Sunday morning session of the 195th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Sunday, April 6, 2025. | Jeffrey D. Allred for the Desere
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Bishop Gérald Caussé and Sister Valérie Caussé admire the Farmington New Mexico Temple as they arrive for the dedication on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
More about Elder Gérald Caussé
Elder Caussé was born in Bordeaux, France, on May 20, 1963, to Jean and Marie-Blanche Bonnet Caussé.
Elder Caussé and his wife, Valerie Babin Caussé, met in a young single adult ward in France.
On Aug. 5, 1986, the couple married in the Bern Switzerland Temple; they have five children.
Elder Gérald Caussé and his wife, Valérie, speak about his new call to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
His parents joined the church when he “was a little baby,” he said, noting that he was raised in small church units filled with first-generation Latter-day Saints. Among other things, he played the organ for Sunday services.
After earning the equivalent of a Master’s in Business Administration Degree from ESSEC Business School, he worked in the food industry. At age 33, he was given responsibility for 1,800 people in a food distribution company. At the time of his calling as a General Authority, he was working as managing director of Pomona, France’s largest food distributor.
Elder Caussé was named Presiding Bishop on Oct. 9, 2015 — after serving three and a half years as first counselor in the presiding bishopric, filling the vacancy created when Elder Gary E. Stevenson was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on Oct. 3.
Before being called in 2012 as first counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, Elder Caussé served as a General Authority Seventy (called at age 44) and as a counselor in the Europe Area Presidency. He was the third presiding bishop born outside the United States and the first for whom English is a second language.
Elder Caussé is an accomplished pianist, often performing at church events and using music to share his testimony of Jesus Christ.
Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé speaks to a large audience of over 11,000 during his keynote address on the main stage at the 2025 Utah Area YSA Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. | Brian Nicholson, Deseret News
From left, Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé and Jon Schmidt of The Piano Guys perform a rendition of Für Elise prior to Bishop Causse’s keynote address on the main state at the 2025 Utah Area YSA Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. | Brian Nicholson, Deseret News
Bishop Gérald Caussé, presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks at Crossroads of the World: International Trade Summit at Zions Bancorporation’s Technology Center in Midvale on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News
Bishop Gérald Caussé, presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Olympian Jimmer Fredette greet youth after special devotional held Sunday, July 21, 2024, in Versailles, France. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé greets guests at “Crossroads of the World,” an international trade summit at the Zions Technology Center in Midvale, Utah, on the morning of Wednesday, May 22, 2024. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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