Louis George Mylne (1843 – 1921) was the Bishop of Bombay from 1876 until 1897.

Career

Born into a colonial family, Mylne was educated at

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and

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before being

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in 1867. After a curacy in

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he became a

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before elevation to the

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. After 21 years he returned to the United Kingdom, taking incumbencies in Alvechurch and

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. His

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obituary noted that although he

"belonged to the older school of high churchmen, he was able to work harmoniously with men within and without the
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whose opinions did not agree with his own”

Works

A prolific author, his works include: *"English Church Life in India", 1881 *"Corporate Life of the Church in India", 1884 *"Counsels and Principles of the Lambeth Conference of 1888", 1889 *"Sermons preached in Bombay", 1889 *"Churchmen and the Higher Criticism", 1893 *"Hopes for Reunion", 1896 *"The Hidden Riches of Secret Places (in Mankind and the Church)", 1907 *"Mission to Hindus", 1908 *"The Holy Trinity", 1916

Family

Mylene married at St. Thomas Cathedral,

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, on 27 December 1880, Amy Frederica Moultrie, daughter of G. W. Moultrie, Agent of the Bank of Bengal in Bombay.

References

1843 births People educated at Merchiston Castle School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Anglican bishops of Bombay 19th-century Anglican bishops in Asia 1921 deaths British people in colonial India {{Christianity-bio-stub