Robert "Bob" Herbert Mize Jr. (4 February 1907 – 17 August 2000) was Bishop of Damaraland, Southern Africa from 1960 [1] to his expulsion in 1968. [2] He was born on 4 February 1907 into an ecclesiastical family in Emporia, Kansas. His father Robert Herbert Mize Sr. was Missionary Bishop of Salina from 1921 to 1938. [3] He was educated at the University of Kansas. [4] After his ordination in 1932, he worked with disadvantaged boys at a mission in western Kansas. [5]
In 1945, he founded the St. Francis Boys Home [6] at Ellsworth in the centre of the state, a position he held until his elevation to the episcopate. [7] A supporter of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States, [8] he died on 17 August 2000 and is buried in Ellis County, Kansas. [9]
Robert "Bob" Herbert Mize Jr. (4 February 1907 – 17 August 2000) was Bishop of Damaraland, Southern Africa from 1960 [1] to his expulsion in 1968. [2] He was born on 4 February 1907 into an ecclesiastical family in Emporia, Kansas. His father Robert Herbert Mize Sr. was Missionary Bishop of Salina from 1921 to 1938. [3] He was educated at the University of Kansas. [4] After his ordination in 1932, he worked with disadvantaged boys at a mission in western Kansas. [5]
In 1945, he founded the St. Francis Boys Home [6] at Ellsworth in the centre of the state, a position he held until his elevation to the episcopate. [7] A supporter of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States, [8] he died on 17 August 2000 and is buried in Ellis County, Kansas. [9]