Editing Mason Remey (section)

==Resultant groups==
{{see also|Attempted schisms in the Baháʼí Faith}}
Remey's claim to Guardianship resulted in the largest schism in the history of the religion, and several small groups continue the belief that Remey was the Guardian and successor to Shoghi Effendi. They are now largely confined to the United States,{{sfn|Momen|Smith|1989}}{{sfn|Momen|1995|loc=§G.2.e}} with few members{{sfn|Barrett|2001|p=247}} and no communal religious life.{{sfn|Warburg|2006|p=206}} Accurate estimates on size are scarce and dated.

===Joel Marangella===
{{Main|Orthodox Baháʼí Faith}}
In 1961 Joel Marangella (1918–2013) received a letter from Remey, and a note that, "...in or after 1963. You will know when to break the seal."{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=61}} In 1964 Remey appointed members to a second International Baháʼí Council with Marangella as president, significant due to Remey's claim to Guardianship being based on the same appointment. In 1965 Remey activated the council, and in 1966 wrote letters passing the "affairs of the Faith" to the council, then later dissolving it. In 1969 Marangella made an announcement that the letter of 1961 was Remey's appointment of him as the third Guardian, and that he had been the Guardian since 1964, invalidating Remey's pronouncements from that point forward.{{sfn|Johnson|2020|pp=60–65}}

Marangella gained the support of most of Remey's followers,{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=60}}{{sfn|Warburg|2006|p=206}} who came to be known as Orthodox Baháʼís.{{sfn|Smith|2000|p=292}} One source estimated them at no more than 100 members in 1988, with the largest concentration being 11 in Roswell, New Mexico.{{sfn|Ryan|1988}} In a 2007 court case, the group claimed a United States membership of about 40 people.{{sfn|Surreply|2007}}

===Donald Harvey===
Donald Harvey was appointed by Remey as "Third Guardian" in 1967,{{sfn|Smith|2000}} and the first of five "elders", but he later dissolved the body of elders.{{sfn|Stockman|1995}} Donald Harvey never gained much of a following.{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=95}} When Harvey died in 1991, leadership went to Jacques Soghomonian,{{sfn|Momen|1995|loc=§G.2.e}} and when he died in 2013 it passed to E.S. Yazdani.{{sfn|Johnson|2020|pp=100–101}}

===Leland Jensen===
{{main|Leland Jensen}}
Leland Jensen was initially a supporter of Remey and then left the group. After a stint in prison for sexually molesting a minor,<ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/montana/supreme-court/1969/11610-0.html ''State v. Jensen''], 455 P.2d 631 (Montana, 1969)</ref> he made several religious claims of his own and established himself as the head of an apocalyptic cult.{{sfn|Smith|2000}} He believed that Remey was the adopted son of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, and that Remey's adopted son Joseph Pepe was the third Guardian, something that Pepe refused to entertain.{{sfn|Balch|1997|p=282, Note 6}} Jensen made headlines for predicting a nuclear holocaust in 1980, and his followers became the subject of academic studies in [[cognitive dissonance]].{{sfn|Warburg|2006|p=206}}{{sfn|Balch|1983}}{{sfn|Balch|1997}} Membership peaked in 1980 with 150–200, but declined after the failed prophecy of 1980. By 1990 there were fewer than 100 adherents, and defection continued in the 1990s and beyond.{{sfn|Balch|1997|pp=271,280}} They were concentrated in Montana.

===Rex King===
Rex King was elected to Remey's NSA of the United States with the most votes, and soon came into conflict with Remey. In 1969 he traveled to Italy with the hope of having Remey pass affairs over to him, but instead was labeled with the "station of satan".{{sfn|Johnson|2020|pp=75–76}} King supported Marangella's claim, but soon took issue with the way Marangella was interpreting scripture.{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=77}} King rejected all claimants to the Guardianship after Shoghi Effendi including Remey. He claimed that he, Rex King, was a "regent" pending the emergence of the second Guardian who was in "occultation". Hardly any of Remey's supporters followed King.{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=83}} He called the group the "Orthodox Baháʼí Faith under the Regency" and held at least three annual conferences in the 1970s.{{sfn|Alamogordo Daily News|1975}} King died in 1977 and left a will appointing his three sons and a daughter-in-law as a council of regents, who changed their name to "Tarbiyat Baha'i Community".{{sfn|Momen|1995|loc=§G.2.e}}{{sfn|Johnson|2020|p=78}} They were concentrated in New Mexico.