- 1954-04-00 — 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] - 1954-05-02 — Cynthia R. Olson of Wilmington, Delaware, settled in Barrigada, the largest village in Guam, and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Mariana Islands. [BW13:454; BWNS303]
- 1963-11-01 — The first person on Saipan to become a Bahá'í, Patience Robinson, enrolled.
- 1978-04-21 —
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Mariana Islands was formed. [BW17:174–176, 348; DM348, 386]
- For picture see DM387.
- 1988-07-00 —
Nearly 50 people became Bahá'ís in Saipan, Mariana Islands. [BINS181:5]
- Later reports indicated that 91 people have enrolled by October 1988.
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