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Robert Herbert Mize, Jr. (known as Bob) was Bishop of Damaraland from 1960[1] to his expulsion in 1968.[2]

He was born on 4 February 1907 into an ecclesiastical family[3] in Emporia, Kansas on February 4, 1907[4] and educated at the University of Kansas.[5] After his ordination in 1932 he worked with disadvantaged boys at a mission in western Kansas.[6]

In 1945, he founded the St. Francis Boys Home[7] at Ellsworth in the center of the state, a position he held until his elevation to the Episcopate.[8] A supporter of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States,[9] he died on 17 August 2000 and is buried in Ellis County, Kansas.[10]

References

  1. ^ Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of Damaraland Nominated The Times Tuesday, Aug 16, 1960; pg. 10; Issue 54851; col D
  2. ^ A Bishop Expelled The Times Tuesday, May 21, 1968; pg. 9; Issue 57256; col E
  3. ^ His father Robert H. Mize was Bishop of Western Kansas from 1921 to 1938.
  4. ^ Rootsweb
  5. ^ Time Magazine
  6. ^ 1935 Edition Yearbook of American Churches
  7. ^ Prairie Spirit, Diocese of Western Kansas Archived May 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ ”Father Bob and his boys” Neal, E.G:, Indianapolis,Bobbs-Merrill, 1963
  9. ^ Project Canterbury
  10. ^ St Andrew’s cemetery, Buckey NW Township, Ellis Co, KS
Religious titles
Preceded by Bishop of Damaraland
1960–1968
Succeeded by