Bob Mize

Robert "Bob" Herbert Mize Jr. (4 February 1907 – 17 August 2000) was Bishop of Damaraland, Southern Africa from 1960[1] to his expulsion in 1968.[2] He was born on 4 February 1907 into an ecclesiastical family in Emporia, Kansas. His father Robert Herbert Mize Sr. was Missionary Bishop of Salina from 1921 to 1938.[3] He was educated at the University of Kansas.[4] After his ordination in 1932, he worked with disadvantaged boys at a mission in western Kansas.[5]

In 1945, he founded the St. Francis Boys Home[6] at Ellsworth in the centre of the state, a position he held until his elevation to the episcopate.[7] A supporter of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States,[8] he died on 17 August 2000 and is buried in Ellis County, Kansas.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of Damaraland Nominated". The Times. August 16, 1960; pg. 10; Issue 54851; col D
  2. ^ "A Bishop Expelled". The Times. May 21, 1968; pg. 9; Issue 57256; col E
  3. ^ "KANSAN NAMED BISHOP; Priest's Episcopal Diocese Covers South-West Africa". The New York Times. 16 August 1960. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Religion: Christian Experiment". Time. 22 December 1947. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  5. ^ 1935 Edition Yearbook of American Churches
  6. ^ Prairie Spirit, Diocese of Western Kansas Archived May 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Neal, Emily Gardiner (1963). Father Bob and His Boys. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis.
  8. ^ Project Canterbury
  9. ^ St Andrew’s cemetery, Buckey NW Township, Ellis Co, KS



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