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Richard Charles Neitzel Holzapfel [1] (born 1954) [2] is a former professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University (BYU) and an author on topics related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Western and Utah History, and the New Testament.
Holzapfel was born in Blackfoot, Idaho, and moved regularly as a child, due to his father's naval career. In addition to his native state, his family resided in California, Hawaii, and Maine. He attended Castle Park High School (Chula Vista, California) and graduated from York High School (York, Maine) in 1972. Holzapfel served from 1973 to 1975 as a missionary for the LDS Church in Italy and Switzerland.
Holzapfel attended BYU, Hebrew Union College, and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), receiving B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees respectively, with an emphasis in Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish History, Ancient History, American History, and Nineteenth-Century American Religious History.
Holzapfel taught at BYU from 1993 until 2018 when he began working for the LDS Church's Missionary Department overseeing the development of a worldwide missionary curriculum. In this position, he was involved in creating the updated missionary handbook in 2019. [3]
Holzapfel and his wife reside in Springville, Utah and are the parents of five children. [4]
Holzapfel has written over 45 books, including biographies and various photographic works.
Holzapfel has served in the LDS Church as a bishop, [5] ward Young Men president, high councilor, bishop's counselor, stake mission president, and member of the Gospel Doctrine class manual writing committee. [6]
He served as president of the Alabama Birmingham Mission from 2010 to 2013, [7] and as president of the church's Provo Utah YSA 1st Stake from 2014 to 2018. [8] In 2018, Holzapfel was called as an area seventy and was released in 2023. [9]
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