Henry Bennion Eyring (born May 31, 1933) is an American educational administrator, author, and religious leader.

[3] As a teenager, Eyring and his family moved to Salt Lake City, where his father took a post at the University of Utah.

Over the summer after his first year at Harvard, Eyring did an internship with Arthur D. Little as a consultant for Abitibi Power and Paper Company.

[14] Among other callings in the LDS Church, Eyring has served as a regional representative, bishop and member of the Sunday School General Board.

Eyring was sustained as second counselor in the church's First Presidency on October 6, 2007,[16] filling the vacancy left by the death of James E. Faust, on August 10, 2007.

When the First Presidency was reorganized following the death of Gordon B. Hinckley, Eyring was called and set apart as the first counselor on February 3, 2008.

[17] As a member of the First Presidency, Eyring has dedicated the San Salvador El Salvador,[18] Gilbert Arizona,[19] Payson Utah,[20] Indianapolis Indiana,[21] and Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temples[22] where he had also presided at the groundbreaking in 2011[23] as well as rededicating the Buenos Aires Argentina[24] and Mexico City Mexico[25] Temples.

In 2014, after a meeting with Pope Francis,[26][27] Eyring spoke at Humanum, "an International Interreligious Colloquium on The Complementarity of Man and Woman," held in Vatican City.

[27] Eyring and his wife, Kathleen Johnson, met at a YSA meeting held at Rindge, New Hampshire at the Cathedral of the Pines in the spring of 1960.

[30] After an intense courtship that first summer, Eyring and Johnson continued courting with her making multiple cross-country airplane trips until they were engaged early in 1961.

[31] They were married in the LDS Church's Logan Temple on July 27, 1962, with the ceremony performed by his uncle, Spencer W.