Hideya Suzuki
Hideya Suzuki | |
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| NSA member | Northeast Asia 1966 - 1969 |
| ABM | Asia 1969 - 1976 |
| Counsellor | Northeast 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]
- ↑ Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 191
- ↑ Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 204
- ↑ Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 430, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 206
- ↑ Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 458, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
- ↑ Barbara R. Sims, Traces That Remain, Baha'i Publishing Trust of Japan, Tokyo, 1989, p 220
- ↑ Baha'i News (1981). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 603, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
