RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Elizabeth Ann Seton

1774 - 1821

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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821) was an American Catholic religious and educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her husband William Seton. She converted to Catholicism in 1805 and established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland. There she also founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Ann Seton is the 2,720th most popular religious figure (down from 2,273rd in 2019), the 6,955th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,928th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 2,720 out of 3,187. Before her are Polycrates of Ephesus, Kazim Rashti, Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Joseph Othmar Rauscher, Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche, and Jacques Gaillot. After her are Sebastian Francis, Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Euzois of Byzantium, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, and Zoltan Sarosy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 38. Before her are Luis Eduardo Pérez, Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, Edward Charles Howard, W. J. Coffee, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Michael Levytsky. After her are Juan Aldama, John Colter, and Robert Jameson. Among people deceased in 1821, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 29. Before her are José Miguel Carrera, Anders Jahan Retzius, Félix de Azara, Fulgencio Yegros, Martín Miguel de Güemes, and José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa. After her are Georg Friedrich von Martens, Carlo Porta, John Hunter, Heinrich Kuhl, John Crome, and Elizabeth Inchbald.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 6,957 out of 20,380. Before her are George Bancroft (1882), Buckethead (1969), India Arie (1975), Tarana Burke (1973), Kaitlyn Ashley (1971), and William Shepherd (1949). After her are Justin Chambers (1970), Krista Allen (1971), Yvette Mimieux (1942), Chris Mulkey (1948), Edith McGuire (1944), and A. Merritt (1884).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Elizabeth Ann Seton ranks 67. Before her are Dorothy Stang (1931), Francis George (1937), Squanto (1585), Yusuf Estes (1944), John Patrick Foley (1935), and Milman Parry (1902). After her are Donald Wuerl (1940), Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Emma Smith (1804), Francis Spellman (1889), Adoniram Judson (1788), and Walter Breuning (1896).

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