PROVO, Utah, April 7 (UPI) -- The newspaper of Utah's Brigham Young University said papers had to be reprinted after a front page typo used "apostates" in the place of "apostles."

Rich Evans, editorial manager for The Daily Universe, said newspaper employees retrieved as many of the 18,500 copies of Monday's paper they could find and reprinted them to correct the typo, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday.


Evans said the mistake was in a caption on the photo of this week's Latter Day Saints General Conference. The caption mistakenly had the word "apostates" in the place of "apostles," Evans said.

"Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates and other general authorities raise their hands in a sustaining vote Saturday morning," the uncorrected caption read.

The reprinted newspaper included the correction as well as an apology to the apostles.

"It was the worst possible mistake," Evans said.

"It would have been worse if it were done intentionally, as some have thought," Evans said. "But after talking to the people, we found it was an innocent mistake."

Evans said the mistake occurred when the newspaper's spell checking software noticed "apostles" was misspelled and offered the closest word it could find, "apostates."