Excommunicated Baháʼís are people who were followers of the Baháʼí Faith but were declared covenant-breakers by the head of the religion, currently the Universal House of Justice. These people may still self-identify as Baháʼís, but are no longer permitted to participate in official activities of the Bahá'í community, and Bahá'ís are discouraged from associating closely with them.
From 2000-2020, twenty individuals were expelled by the Baháʼí Administration for Covenant-breaking; one per year on average.[1]
List
Excommunicated by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
- Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí[2]
- Ibrahim George Kheiralla
Excommunicated by Shoghi Effendi
- Ruth Berkeley White (1920s)[3]
- Hermann Zimmer (1920s)[4]
- Julia Lynch Olin (1939)
- Ahmad Sohrab (1953)[5]
After Shoghi Effendi
- Mason Remey (1960)[6]
- Leland Jensen (1960)