Mark A. Bragg

Bragg served as a missionary in the Monterrey, Mexico area. Among other callings, he later served as a bishop, high councilor, temple ordinance worker, stake president, and area seventy.^[4] On April 2, 2016, he was called as a general authority. His assignments have included serving in the presidencies of the church's South America South and North America West areas.^[5]

Bragg visited areas is Hawaii affected by the 2023 Hawaii wildfires. He helped set up local meetinghouses as shelters and met with Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke.^[6][7] In response to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, Bragg released the church's official response, highlighting the "light of Christ working through these organizations, families, friends, and even complete strangers" who responded to the wildfires.^[8][9]

On June 18, 2022, he presided over the groundbreaking of the Yorba Linda California Temple,^[10] and also presided at the groundbreaking of the Vancouver Washington Temple on August 23, 2025.^[11]

Bragg married Yvonne King, a daughter of his mission president, on March 17, 1984, in the Los Angeles California Temple.^[2] They have four children.

On January 29, 2001, the day after he was sustained as a bishop, Bragg's mother was killed in a kidnapping attempt at the South Bay Galleria Mall.^[12][13][14]