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Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith

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Date 1954-04-00-15, sorted by date, descending

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1954 Apr
195-		 Robert B. Powers, Jr., a member of the U.S. armed forces at the Navy Air Station, arrived in Guam and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Mariana Islands.

On May 2, 1954, Cynthia R. Olson arrived on Guam in response to the call from Shoghi Effendi; becoming the first permanent Bahá’í Settler in the Mariana Islands.

Antonio Alfonso, the first Filipino national to embrace the Faith, became a Bahá’í on 19 March 1956, and Joe Erie Ilengelkei of Palau, Western Caroline Island became the first Micronesian to accept Bahá’u’lláh when he became a member of the Bahá’í Faith on 7 April 1956. [BW13:454; Marianas Bahá'í Community website]

 - Islands; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Guam; Mariana Islands the first Bahá’í in the Mariana Islands; the first Filipino national to embrace the Faith; the first Micronesian to accept the Bahá’í Faith.
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