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Robert Herbert Mize, Jr.
Robert "Bob" Herbert Mize Jr. (4 February 1907 – 17 August 2000) was Bishop of Damaraland, Southern Africa from 1960 to his expulsion in 1968. He was born on 4 February 1907 into an ecclesiastical family in Emporia, Kansas Emporia is a city in and the county seat of Lyon County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 24,139. Emporia lies between Topeka and Wichita at the intersection of U.S. Route 50 with Interstates 335 .... His father Robert Herbert Mize Sr. was Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas, Missionary Bishop of Salina from 1921 to 1938. He was educated at the University of Kansas. After his ordination in 1932, he worked with disadvantaged boys at a mission in western Kansas. In 1945, he founded the St. Francis Boys Home at Ellsworth, Kansas, Ellsworth in the centre of the state, a position he held until his elevation to the episcopate. A supporter of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States, he died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Namibia
The Diocese of Namibia is part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, which is itself part of the Anglican Communion. The diocese, which covers the whole country of Namibia, was originally known as the Diocese of Damaraland. Most of the Anglicans in Namibia live in Ovamboland in the north of the country and speak the Oshikwanyama language. History The first Christian missionaries in Namibia were Methodists, who worked mainly in the South of the country, then called Namaqualand. They were followed by German Lutherans of the Rhenish Mission Society, who were mainly based in the central part of the country around Windhoek, and in Damaraland, immediately north of Windhoek. In the 1870s Germany claimed Namaqualand, Damaraland, Ovamboland and neighbouring territories as German South West Africa. Lutheran missionaries from the Finnish Missionary Society went to Ovamboland, and settled among the Ndonga-speaking people there. Beginnings In 1915, during the First World War, South Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |