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Douglas Milmine

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Douglas Milmine CBE (3 May 1921 – 28 February 2017) was the Anglican Bishop of Paraguay from 1973 to 1985.[1]

Education

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Milmine was educated at Sutton Valence School and St Peter's Hall, Oxford; and was ordained in 1947.[2]

War service

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Milmine served in the Royal Air Force Reserves from 1941 to 1945. In 1943, while commanding a Halifax bomber, he was shot down over Germany. He evaded capture for several days, heading overland into the Netherlands, where he was captured. He was held as a Prisoner of War in Stalag Luft III until the end of the war. He later told his school's magazine "Actually, it wasn't that bad – if you could survive boarding at an English public school then you could survive prison camp!"[3]

Ministry

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Milmine began his ordained ministry with curacies at St Philip and St James in Ilfracombe[4] and St Paul's at Slough.[5]

In 1954 he moved to South America where he served in Chile, Bolivia and Peru and finally (until his ordination to the episcopate) as Archdeacon of North Chile, Bolivia and Peru.[6]

On his return to England, Milmine retired to Eastbourne, and served as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester.[7]

Personal life

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Milmine married Margaret Rosalind "Ros" Whitley in 1945; and they had 4 children, 13 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.[8] She died in 2018 at the age of 97.[9]

He died on 28 February 2017 at the age of 95.[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ "Significant dates in the history of SAMS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2008.
  2. ^ Crockford's clerical directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0)
  3. ^ Old Suttonian Newsletter, July 2014
  4. ^ Church details Archived June 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Church website
  6. ^ ‘MILMINE, Rt Rev. Douglas’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 21 March 2016
  7. ^ Chichester Cathedral
  8. ^ Old Suttonian Newsletter ibid
  9. ^ Milmine
  10. ^ MILMINE
  11. ^ "The Right Reverend Douglas Milmine – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 15 March 2017.
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Bishop of Paraguay
1973–1985
Succeeded by