Robert Seton
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| Born | August 28, 1839 Pisa, Italy |
| Died | March 22, 1927 (aged 87) Morristown, New Jersey |
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| Occupation | Clergyman |
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Robert Seton (August 28, 1839 – March 22, 1927) was a descendant of the New York "aristocratic" Seton and Bayley families, Seton was also a monsignor in the Roman Catholic Church and titular archbishop of Heliopolis.
Biography[]
Robert Seton was born in Pisa, Italy on August 28, 1839.[1] He was educated in Mount St. Mary's College of Emmitsburg, Maryland, and in the Academia Ecclesiastica, Rome from 1857 to 1867. He received the degree of D.D. from the Sapienza.[2]
In 1866 he was raised to the rank of private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX. He was the first person from the United States that was honored with the Roman Prelatura, and was the dean of all the monsignori in the United States. He was made prothonotary apostolic in 1867, and rector of St. Joseph's Church, Jersey City, in 1876. He was a priest of the then-Diocese of Newark, New Jersey. He was a trustee of Seton Hall University.
He died at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey (now Morris Township) on March 22, 1927.[3]
Works[]
He wrote Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of Elizabeth Seton (2 vols., New York, 1869) and Essays on Various Subjects, chiefly Roman (1882).[2] He privately published An Old Family, the Setons of Scotland and America (1899) which is a well researched genealogy of the Seton family. He was also a frequent contributor to Roman Catholic periodicals. See the Robert Seton Family Papers, University of Notre Dame Archives.
Family[]
He was the fourth of William and Emily (Prime) Seton's seven children; the grandson of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of the American Sisters of Charity in 1809; and cousin of Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, first bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and founder of Seton Hall University in 1856.
References[]
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 190. Retrieved April 8, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Seton, Robert. An Old Family: Or, The Setons of Scotland and America, Brentano's, 1899, p. 355
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Aged Archbishop Seton is Dead in New Jersey". Chicago Tribune. Morristown, New Jersey. March 23, 1927. p. 18. Retrieved April 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the - This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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- 1839 births
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- 20th-century American Roman Catholic titular archbishops
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark
- Seton family