Search results
James Roosevelt Bayley (August 23, 1814 – October 3, 1877) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Newark (1853–1872) and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–1877).
May 30, 2023 · Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, D.D., nephew of Saint Elizabeth Bayley Seton, was the First Ordinary of the Diocese of Newark. Bayley had been an Episcopal minister prior to his conversion in 1842. He attended St. John’s College, Fordham, for his seminary studies and was ordained on March 2, 1844 in New York.
James Roosevelt Bayley, the first Catholic bishop of Newark, established Seton Hall College in 1856, naming it for his aunt, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the founder of the Sisters of Charity and the first saint born in America.
Bayley, JAMES ROOSEVELT, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.; eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland; b. at Rye, New York, August 23, 1814; d. at Newark, October 3, 1877. His Dutch and English non- Catholic ancestors were locally notable.
Mother Seton, foundress of the Sisters of Charity in the United States was his aunt. He was named after his maternal grandfather, James Roosevelt, a merchant of large fortune, who made him his heir, but altered the will when Bayley became a Catholic priest, under the mistaken idea that priests could not possess property. A large part of the ...
BAYLEY, JAMES ROOSEVELT. Eighth archbishop of the Baltimore, Md., Archdiocese; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 23, 1814; d. Newark, N.J., Oct. 3, 1877. A descendant of long-established families of English and Dutch ancestry, he was the son of Dr. Guy Carleton and Grace (Roosevelt) Bayley and the grandson of Richard Bayley, physician, and James ...
James Roosevelt Bayley (August 23, 1814 – October 3, 1877) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Newark (1853–1872) and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–1877).
