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Date 1947-09, descending — sort earliest first

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1947 30 Sep George Townshend, at the age of 71 years, resigned his position with the Church of Ireland. [GT195]
  • He was the first ordained priest of a Christian Protestant church to renounce his Orders and to become a fully accredited member of the Bahá'í community. [GT183]
  • For the story of his resignation and transition to a lay life see GT199–200, 202.
    		• George Townshend; Ireland first ordained priest of a Protestant church to renounce his Orders and become Bahá'í
    1947 13 Sep The passing of Haji Mahmúd Qassabchí. In 1933 Qassabchí had suffered a severe attack of paralysis which he narrowly survived and as a result of which he could hardly move or speak for the rest of his life. He was buried at Salman Pak, about thirty miles southeast of Baghdad. [BW11p502-503]
  • He had become a Bahá'í in 1911 after reading accounts of the travels of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in the Star of the West. Prior to that he had made the acquaintance of Músá Banání and had been impressed with the young man's honesty. With regard to his service to the Faith, after WWI he undertook the restoration of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad. A few years later he played a leading part in the purchase and the establishment of the Hazíratu'l-Quds of Baghdad and he participated in no small measure to the erection of the Hazíratu'l-Quds in the village of Avasiq, the first built in Iraq.
  • His most imperishable service was the construction of three rooms at the rear of the Shrine of the Báb that were temporarily used as the International Bahá'í Archives before the construction of its permanent seat. [BW11p502-503]
    		• Hájí Mahmud Qassabchi; In Memoriam; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Báb, Shrine of; Musa Banani; Restoration; Baghdad, Iraq; Avashiq, Iraq; Iraq first Hazíratu'l-Quds in Iraq in the village of Avashiq
    1947 Sep Léa Nys became a Bahá'í in Belgium, the first Belgian to accept the Faith after World War Two.
  • She is considered the first Belgian Bahá'í. She served in the first National Spiritual Assembly of Belgium elected in 1962 and served until 1965. [Bahaipedia]
  • See her "In Memoriam".
    		•  First Bahá'ís by country or area; Belgium first Belgian Bahá'í

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