{"id":53656,"date":"2025-11-04T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=53656"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:25:17","slug":"is-mark-pope-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/is-mark-pope-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ist Mark Pope Mormone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes. Mark Pope, who has coached the University of Kentucky men&#039;s basketball team since April 2024, is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Before Kentucky he coached at Brigham Young University, which the church founded and supports, first as an assistant and then as head coach. His faith came late. By his own telling he shrugged it off as a boy, even with three older brothers who served missions, and he was still searching in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Kentucky coach Mark Pope is a Latter-day Saint. He played at Washington and Kentucky, not BYU, and coached at BYU from 2011 to 2015 and 2019 to 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[336],"class_list":["post-53656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-the-mormons-lds"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53672,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/de\/learn\/steve-sarkisian-mormon\/","url_meta":{"origin":53656,"position":0},"title":"Is Steve Sarkisian mormon?","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"Februar 12, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"No. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is Catholic. 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