Rangvald Taetz
Rangvald Taetz | |
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| Died | c. 2008 |
| NSA member | South America 1951 - 1953 B.P.C.E.V. 1958 - 1961 Brazil 1961 - 1965 |
| ABM | Americas 1965 - ???? |
Rangvald Taetz (d. 2008)[1] was a Brazilian Bahá’í who served on the early National Spiritual Assemblies in South America and pioneered to Uruguay in the 1950s.
Biography[edit]
Taetz was living in São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1940s where he became a Bahá’í. In 1948 he lent a copy of Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era to a friend from inner Brazil which resulted in his friend establishing a weekly study group focused on the book.[2] In October 1949 he taught at a four-day Bahá’í conference in Rio de Janeiro organized by the National Teaching Committee for South America.[3]
As of October 1950 Taetz and his wife had pioneered to Montevideo, Uruguay, resulting in the city having enough Bahá’ís to form a Local Spiritual Assembly and they were granted permission to elect their Assembly in November 1950 to allow for the establishment of a Regional Spiritual Assembly for South America during Ridvan in 1951.[4] When the National Spiritual Assembly for South America was established in 1951 Taetz was elected as the bodies inaugural Vice-Chairman.[5] In 1958 he was elected to the Regional Spiritual Assembly of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.[6]
As of 1961 Taetz had returned to Brazil and that year he was elected to the first National Spiritual Assembly of Brazil,[7] and that year he also facilitated a half-hour television program about the Faith in Bahia and visited Recife to assist efforts to form a Local Spiritual Assembly.[8] In 1963 he visited the Holy Land to attend the First International Convention as a member of the National Assembly of Brazil,[9] and wrote the text of a five page article about the Faith which was published in the Brazilian magazine Revista do Globe.[10] In 1965 he was appointed as an Auxiliary Board member and attended the Regional Teaching Congress of South America held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in November that year.[11] By 1969 he was serving on the National Spiritual Assembly of Brazil again.[12]
In 1970 Taetz chaired a public meeting facilitated by Enoch Olinga during his visit to Porto Alegre,[13] and in 1972 he represented the Faith on a Human Rights Day program in Porto Alegre.[14] As of 1977 he was serving as chairman of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Porto Alegre and that year he participated in a United Nations Day conference in the city.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ Central and Regional Courts of the Justice Gazette of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (DJRS) of June 23, 2008, p 146
- ↑ Baha'i News (October 1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 212, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 226, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 236, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 244, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 328, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 365, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 367, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ Rabbani, Ruhiyyih (Ed.) (1992). The Ministry of the Custodians 1957-1963. Bahá’í World Centre. ISBN 0-85398-350-X., p 407
- ↑ Baha'i News (1963). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 393, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 419, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 463, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 473, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1973). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 507, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 564, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
