Robert "Bob" Herbert Mize Jr. (4 February 1907 – 17 August 2000) was

Bishop of Damaraland 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 Anglic ...

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from 1960 to his expulsion in 1968. He was born on 4 February 1907 into an ecclesiastical family in

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. His father Robert Herbert Mize Sr. was Missionary Bishop of Salina from 1921 to 1938. He was educated at the

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. 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 in the centre of the state, a position he held until his elevation to the

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. A supporter of the

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in the United States, he died on 17 August 2000 and is buried in

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.St Andrew’s cemetery, Buckey NW Township, Ellis Co, KS
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1907 births American educational theorists People from Emporia, Kansas University of Kansas alumni 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops Anglican bishops of Damaraland 2000 deaths People from Ellsworth, Kansas Scientists from Kansas {{AntiApartheid-activist-stub