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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.
Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley † Deceased Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- August 23, 1814
- October 3, 1877
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 ...
The Life of James Roosevelt Bayley, First Bishop of Newark and Eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, 1814–1877. By Sister M. Hildegarde Yeager, C. S. C. (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1947. xi + 512 pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $4.50.)
