[1] A member of the Çapari family, he was born in Katavothra in the Ottoman Empire (now in northwestern Greece).
During World War I Refo Çapari migrated to the USA, where he converted to the Baháʼí Faith in 1928.
Capari is responsible for The Hidden Words, the first known published translation of Bahá’í literature into Albanian.
[2] In a letter to the Guardian dated 19 August 1933, Refo Çapari announced the publication in Albanian of J.E.
[2] In 1938 he started publishing in Korçë and Tirana the Baháʼí journal The supreme plume (Albanian: Pënda siprore).