Archbishop Robert John Seton †

Deceased

Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Aug 1839		Born
15 Apr 1865	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA
22 Jun 1903	63.8	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia
5 Jul 1903	63.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia
22 Mar 1927	87.5	Died	Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia

MicroData Summary
Robert John Seton
Archbishop Robert John Seton
(born 28 Aug 1839, died 22 Mar 1927)
Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia

Event Place
Birth Place Livorno, Italy

a priest for 61.9 years
a bishop for 23.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro †
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Principal Consecrator:
Sebastiano Cardinal Martinelli, O.E.S.A. †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agostino
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edmund Stonor †
Titular Archbishop of Trapezus
Archbishop Diomede Panici †
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Sebastiano Cardinal Martinelli, O.E.S.A. † (1896)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agostino
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alexander MacDonald † (1909)
Bishop Antun Gjivoje † (1911)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/254586
VIAF: 89792528
WikiData: Q7349693

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1913
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 301
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1903, Number 29
c1: CB, 21 Sep 2016

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