Douglas Milmine
Douglas Milmine CBE (born 3 May 1921) was the Bishop of Paraguay from 1973 to 1985.[1]
Education
Milmine was educated at Sutton Valence School and St Peter's Hall, Oxford; and was ordained in 1947.[2]
War service
Milmine served in the RAFVR from 1941 to 1945. In 1943, while commanding a Halifax bomber, he was shot down and eventually captured: he was then a Prisoner of War until hostilities ceased.
“Actually, it wasn’t that bad – if you could survive boarding at an English public school then you could survive prison camp!”[3]
Early Ministry
He began his ordained ministry with curacies at St Peter and St James in Ilfracombe[4] and St Paul’s at Slough.[5]
Time in South America
In 1954 he moved to South America where he served in Chile, Bolivia and Peru and finally (until his ordination to the episcopate) as Archdeacon of North Chile, Bolivia and Peru.[6]
Personal life
Douglas Milmine married Rosalind Whitley in 1945; and they have 4 children, 13 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.[7]
Retirement
On his return to England Milmine retired to Eastbourne; and served as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester.[8]
References
- ^ Significant dates in the history of SAMS
- ^ Crockford's clerical directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0)
- ^ Old Suttonian Newsletter, July 2014
- ^ Church details
- ^ Church website
- ^ ‘MILMINE, Rt Rev. Douglas’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 21 March 2016
- ^ Old Suttonian Newsletter ibid
- ^ Chichester Cathedral
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