Complex sentence: Merrill Joseph Bateman (born June 19,1936) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1992, originally as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy.
Split into simpler sentences: Merrill Joseph Bateman (born June 19,1936) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1992. He has been a general authority of the church since 1992, when he was made a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy.