Robert Seton (bishop)

Robert Seton (August 28, 1839 – March 22, 1927) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis.

[3] During the time of the Great Famine of Ireland, his father sent sacks of meal and flour and potatoes and barrels of apples from the estate to a relief ship loading in New York Harbor.

Seton returned to Rome in 1901 and was appointed Archbishop of the titular See of Heliopolis in Phoenicia by Pope Leo XIII in 1903.

He died at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey (now Morris Township) on March 22, 1927,[7] and is buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Newark.

"Robert Seton was remembered as a fairly eccentric character who made a good deal of his family background.

Seton Hall (the Seton family home), Eastchester, Bronx, New York City, 1913
St. Joseph's Church