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Robert "Bob" Herbert Mize Jr. (4 February 1907 – 17 August 2000) was Bishop of Damaraland, Southern Africa from 1960"Ecclesiastical News Bishop Of Damaraland Nominated". The Times. August 16, 1960; pg. 10; Issue 54851; col D to his expulsion in 1968."A Bishop Expelled". The Times. May 21, 1968; pg. 9; Issue 57256; col E 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. He was educated at the University of Kansas. After his ordination in 1932, he worked with disadvantaged boys at a mission in western Kansas. 1935 Edition Yearbook of American Churches
In 1945, he founded the St. Francis Boys Home Prairie Spirit, Diocese of Western Kansas at Ellsworth in the centre of the state, a position he held until his elevation to the episcopate.Neal, Emily Gardiner (1963). Father Bob and His Boys. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis. A supporter of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the United States, Project Canterbury he died on 17 August 2000 and is buried in Ellis County, Kansas. St Andrew’s cemetery, Buckey NW Township, Ellis Co, KS
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