page_title: Robert Seton
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Seton / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking east across Baldwin Avenue at St Josephs Church near dusk of a mostly sunny day
context_page_description: Robert Seton 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.
context_section_description: He was born in Pisa, Italy, and educated in Mount St. Mary's College of Emmitsburg, Maryland, and in the Academia Ecclesiastica, Rome, where he was graduated with the degree of D.D. 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.
caption: St. Joseph's Church
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