Hideya Suzuki

Hideya Suzuki
NSA memberNortheast Asia
1966 - 1969
ABMAsia
1969 - 1976
CounsellorNortheast Asia
1976 - 1980
Asia
1980 - 1985

Hideya Suzuki was a Japanese Bahá’í who served on the Continental Board of Counselors for Asia.

Background[edit]

Suzuki and his brother, Toshio,[1] became Bahá’ís in the early 1960's,[2] and as of 1966 he was serving on the National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia.[3] In 1968 he married Ruth Walbridge with the wedding being held at the Tokyo Bahá’í Center and they then pioneered to Hokkaido.[4]

As of 1969 Suzuki had been appointed as an Auxiliary Board member,[5] and in 1976 the Universal House of Justice appointed him as a Continental Counselor for North East Asia and he was the first native Japanese Bahá’í to serve in the role.[6] In 1980 the Universal House of Justice merged the Continental Boards for Asia into a single body and introduced five year terms and Suzuki was appointed to the new body and attended its inaugural meeting in New Delhi, India, in January 1981.[7]

References[edit]

  1. Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 191
  2. Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 204
  3. Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 430, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  4. Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 206
  5. Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 458, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
  6. Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 220
  7. Baha'i News (1981). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 603, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.

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