James Roosevelt Bayley
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The Most Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley |
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| Archbishop of Baltimore | |
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| See | Baltimore |
| Appointed | June 30, 1872 |
| Installed | October 13, 1872 |
| Term ended | October 3, 1877 |
| Predecessor | Martin John Spalding |
| Successor | James Gibbons |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | March 2, 1844 by John Hughes |
| Consecration | October 30, 1853 by Gaetano Bedini |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 23, 1814 New York, New York |
| Died | October 3, 1877 (aged 63) Newark, New Jersey |
| Buried | National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Previous post | Bishop of Newark (1853-72) |
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 (1853–72) and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (1872–77).
Bayley was born in New York City, to Guy Carlton Bayley and Grace Roosevelt. His father was the son of Dr. Richard Bayley, a professor at Columbia College who created New York's quarantine system, and the brother of Elizabeth Ann Seton, who was canonized in 1975 as the first American-born Roman Catholic saint. His mother was the daughter of Jacobus Roosevelt and Maria Eliza Walton, a descendant of Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland. Lady Joan was an ancestor of several Kings of the House of York in England. The eldest of four children, he had two brothers, Carlton and William, and a sister, Maria Eliza. He was also distantly related to President Theodore Roosevelt and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Bayley received his early education at the Mount Pleasant Classical Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. He once considered a career on the sea, hoping to become a midshipman in the U.S. Navy, but later abandoned these plans. He attended Washington College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1835. Raised as a Protestant, he decided to enter the Episcopal ministry and studied under the Rev. Samuel Farmar Jarvis in Middletown.
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