Bob Mize

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Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Portal". 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

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  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
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  5. 1935 Edition Yearbook of American Churches
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  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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