Douglas Milmine (3 May 1921 – 28 February 2017) was the Anglican Bishop of Paraguay from 1973 to 1985.
Education Milmine was educated at Sutton Valence School and St Peter's Hall, Oxford; and was ordained in 1947.Crockford's clerical directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing ()
War service 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!"Old Suttonian Newsletter, July 2014
Ministry
Milmine began his ordained ministry with curacies at St Philip and St James in IlfracombeChurch details and St Paul's at Slough.Church website
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.‘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
On his return to England, Milmine retired to Eastbourne, and served as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Chichester.
Personal life
Milmine married Margaret Rosalind "Ros" Whitley in 1945; and they had 4 children, 13 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.Old Suttonian Newsletter ibid She died in 2018 at the age of 97.Milmine
Milmine died on 28 February 2017 at the age of 95.MILMINE
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