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ROBERT, an American Roman Catholic archbishop, born in Pisa, Italy, in 1839. He graduated from the Ecclesiastical Academy of Rome, in 1867, having been appointed the year previous private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX.

From 1876 he was rector of St. Joseph's Church, Jersey City. In 1903 he was appointed archbishop of Heliopolis. He was lecturer at the Catholic University of Washington, and at Seton Hall College. ge.

He wrote "Memoir, Letters and Journal of Elizabeth Seton" (1869); "Roman Essays" (1882); and "An Old Family" (1899).

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