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LDS Church apostle Boyd K. Packer was released from a Massachusetts hospital Monday and was scheduled to fly back to Utah, church spokesman Scott Trotter said.
Packer, president of the Utah-based faith's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, collapsed Sunday after delivering a speech during the rededication of a Mormon chapel in Cambridge that was destroyed by fire two years ago.
The 86-year-old apostle served as president of the church's New England Mission in the late 1960s, then joined the quorum in 1970.
On Sunday, he was taken to a hospital for "observation," Trotter said in a news release. "He is grateful for the expressions of concern for his well-being."
Peggy Fletcher Stack