Augusto A. Lim
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Augusto Alandy Lim was a general authority
General authority
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a general authority is a member of certain leadership organizations who are given administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church...

 of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1992 and 1997. He was the first Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 Latter-day Saint to become a general authority of the LDS Church. It was not until the 2007 call of Michael J. Teh to the First Quorum of the Seventy that there was another Filipino who served as a general authority.

Lim was born in Santa Cruz, Marinduque
Santa Cruz, Marinduque
Santa Cruz is a 1st class municipality in the province of Marinduque, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 61, 322 people in 12,014 households.-History:...

, Philippines
Philippines
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, the first of seven sons of Leon B. Lim and Beatriz R. Alandy Lime.

A convert to the LDS Church, Lim was baptized
Baptism
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 in October 1964. Prior to his call as a general authority
General authority
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a general authority is a member of certain leadership organizations who are given administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church...

, Lim had served as a stake president and as the president
Mission president
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 of the LDS Church's Philippines Naga Mission
Mission (LDS Church)
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. He was a practising lawyer in the Philippines
Philippines
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.

In July 1992, Lim was ordained to the priesthood office of seventy and became a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He was honorably released from his duties as a general authority on October 4, 1997. He later served as president
Temple President
Temple president is a priesthood leadership position in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A temple president's primary responsibility is to supervise the affairs of an LDS temple in both an administrative and spiritual capacity....

 of the Manila Philippines Temple
Manila Philippines Temple
The Manila Philippines Temple is the 29th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.On April 1, 1981, it was announced that a LDS temple would be built in the Philippines. The groundbreaking and site dedication for the temple were on August 25, 1982. Back in January 1981,...

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Lim is married to Myrna Garcia Morillo; they have eight children.

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