Remey in a sentence

After Shoghi Effendi main When Shoghi Effendi died in 1957, Remey and the other Hands of the Cause met in a private Conclave at Bahjí in Haifa, and determined that he hadn't appointed a successor.

As a Bahá'í With a background in architecture, Remey was asked to design the Australian and Ugandan Bahá'í House of Worship which still stand today and are the mother temples for Australasia and Africa respectively.

He told me He loved Mason Remey so much,” Thompson writes, “and He loved me so much that he wished us to marry.

His claim resulted in the largest schism in the history of the Bahá'í Faith, with a few groups still holding the belief that Remey was the successor of Shoghi Effendi.

In 1960 Remey, a Hand of the Cause himself, retracted his earlier position, and claimed to have been coerced.

In 1962 Remey gave Marangella a sealed envelope, with instructions to open it when the time was right.

In 1965 Mason Remey called for the International Bahá'í Council, of which Marangella was president, to become active.

In his later years Remey made confused and contradictory appointments for a successor, which resulted in further divisions among his followers dividing among several claimants to leadership.

Remey based his claim on his being the president of the International Bahá'í Council appointed by Shoghi Effendi in 1951.

Remey's life was recorded in his diaries, and in 1940 he provided copies and selected writings to several public libraries.

Remey then changed his mind, deactivated the International Bahá'í Council in 1966, and in 1969 Marangella announced that he was the third Guardian.

Summary and details of the collection of Remey's diaries at Johns Hopkins University Library.

The result was that Remey was unanimously expelled from the Bahá'í community by the Hands of the Cause.

Those close to Remey claimed that he went senile in old age, and by the time of his death he was largely abandoned, with his most prominent followers fighting amongst themselves for leadership.

Under Shoghi Effendi Remey lived for some time in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s and 1940s.

Under the Hereditary Guardianship Among the Bahá'ís who accepted Mason Remey as the Second Guardian of the Cause of God, several further divisions have occurred based on opinions of legitimacy and the proper succession of authority.

When Remey died his followers split into rival factions with each believing in a different Guardian.

When Shoghi Effendi died in 1957, he died without explicitly appointing a successor Guardian, and Remey was among the nine Hands of the Cause elected as an interim authority until the election of the first Universal House of Justice in 1963.