James Roosevelt Bayley
James Roosevelt Bayley (born August 23, 1814 in New York City , United States , † October 3, 1877 in Newark ) was an American clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark and Archbishop of Baltimore .
Life
James Roosevelt Bayley first became a priest of the Episcopal Church in 1840 and converted to the Catholic faith in April 1842. He received on March 2, 1844 sacrament of Holy Orders .
On July 29, 1853, Pope Pius IX appointed him . to the first bishop of the diocese of Newark , established on the same date , which included the entire state of New Jersey . He was ordained bishop on October 30th of the same year by the Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Gaetano Bedini , who was on his way to Rome . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Albany , John McCloskey , and the Bishop of Cleveland , Louis Amadeus Rappe . The inauguration in Newark took place two days later.
In Newark, his main concern was to build a network of Catholic schools. For this he brought religious sisters from different communities into the diocese. He founded a Catholic college and seminary in Madison, New Jersey - in South Orange since 1880 , now Seton Hall University - and helped establish the North American College in 1859. Among the seminarians he sent there was the later one Archbishop of New York Michael Augustine Corrigan .
Pope Pius IX appointed him on July 30, 1872 Archbishop of Baltimore . The inauguration took place on October 13 of the same year.
Due to illness, he was rarely in Baltimore and instead lived at the Seton Hall College in Madison, which he founded. As a self-testimony from the last weeks of life, the word has been handed down: “I am archbishop; I have been bishop; but I like Father Bayley best of all. "
He was buried in the Emmitsburg cemetery, which also houses the grave of his aunt, the canonized Elisabeth Anna Bayley Seton , now the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton .
family
James Roosevelt Bayley was a nephew of the Order's founder, Elisabeth Anna Bayley Seton , the first saint to be born in the United States. The two US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt were distantly related to him.
Web links
- Entry for James Roosevelt Bayley on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Biography , Archdiocese of Newark homepage, accessed November 11, 2014
- Archbishops of the Modern Era (1851–2012) , Archbishopric Baltimore homepage, accessed November 11, 2014
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Martin John Spalding |
Archbishop of Baltimore 1872–1877 |
James Gibbons |
| --- |
Bishop of Newark 1853–1872 |
Michael Augustine Corrigan |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bayley, James Roosevelt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark and Archbishop of Baltimore |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1877 |
| Place of death | Newark |