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Lutheran Church of Guam
The Lutheran Church of Guam was established in 1969 and is supported by the Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. The church first came to Guam in 1963 as the Lutheran Serviceman’s Center with a congregation consisting mainly of military personnel.
Dominican Sisters
The Dominican Sisters are a consecrated community of religious women of the Catholic Church who teach school and also care for the elderly on Guam. While the Dominican order was originally founded in France in the 1200s, the congregation on Guam was founded in Spain about 100 hundred years ago and is found in countries all over the world.
Carmelite Nuns
The Carmelite Sisters are an order of contemplative Catholic nuns who follow the reformed observance of the Carmelite Rule as defined by Saint Teresa of Avila. The Carmelites are so named because they were traditionally founded by Christian hermits on Mount Carmel in Palestine.
Baha’i Faith
The Bahá’í Faith has been part of the Guam community since 1954, quietly attracting members from the island’s diverse population. The Mariana Islands Bahá’í Community encompasses both Guam and the Northern Marianas.
Guam’s Role in World War I
In 1917 the United States declared war on Germany, and just by chance, a German cruiser, the SMS Cormoran II, was docked at Apra Harbor.
Stigmatines
The first religious congregation to staff the Father Duenas Memorial School and Minor Seminary—members of which are commonly called Stigmatine priests, was founded in Verona, Italy, in 1816 by St. Gaspar Bertoni.
Sisters of Mercy
The Religious Sisters of Mercy, commonly called the Sisters of Mercy or Mercy Sisters, were the first permanent community of Catholic religious women in Guam and the first to accept local vocations. They soon became the largest community of Chamorro/Chamoru religious women after their arrival in Guam on 5 November 1946.
Seventh-day Adventists
During World War II, two American servicemen by the names of Henry Metzker and Bob Beckett played key roles in the origins of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Guam.
Governor Willis W. Bradley
United States Naval Captain Willis W. Bradley (1884 – 1954), governor of Guam from 1929 to 1931, attempted to make a series of changes in the way the island was governed. Upon arriving in Guam he used the 1929 Annual Report from the previous Naval governor to recommend to US Congress that CHamorus be granted US citizenship.
Jehovah’s Witnesses
The first Jehovah’s Witnesses in Guam arrived from the Philippines in the 1940s. These first Witnesses were contract workers assigned to assist with post-World War II reconstruction.