{"id":53656,"date":"2025-11-04T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=53656"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:51:50","slug":"is-mark-pope-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/is-mark-pope-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfEs Mark Pope morm\u00f3n?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Yes. Mark Pope, head men&#039;s basketball coach at the University of Kentucky 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. Did Mark Pope play at BYU? No. BYU recruited him out of high school in Bellevue, Washington, and he chose the nearby University of Washington instead, where he was Pac-10\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\/es\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/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\/es\/learn\/steve-sarkisian-mormon\/","url_meta":{"origin":53656,"position":0},"title":"Is Steve Sarkisian mormon?","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"febrero 12, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"No. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is Catholic. 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