Robert Seton

Robert Seton

Robert Seton (1839-1927) a descendant of the New York "aristocratic" Seton and Bayley families, Seton was a monsignor in the Roman Catholic Church and titular archbishop of Heliopolis; 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 Newark and founder of Seton Hall University in 1856.

He wrote a memoir of his grandmother, "Roman Essays".

See the "Robert Seton Family Papers," University of Notre Dame Archives.


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