Congregations that trace their origins to

Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati

In 1829 sisters from Emmitsburg opened a mission in Cincinnati. A separate congregation was formed in 1852 with its motherhouse in that city.

Sisters of Charity of Convent Station

The first bishop of the diocese of Newark was James Roosevelt Bayley, nephew of Mother Seton. In 1858 he sent young women from his diocese to be trained by the Sisters of Charity in Cinncinnati. They returned to New Jersey in the same year, and became a separate congregation with their motherhouse at Convent Station.

Sisters of Charity of Halifax - New York Province

In 1848 Bishop William Walsh of Halifax applied to the Sisters of Charity of New York for sisters to teach in the diocese of Halifx. On May 11, 1849, four Sisters of Charity from New York led by Sister Basilia McCann, a pupil of Mother Seton, left Boston on board the ship "Cambria", which carried 110 passengers and 300 tons of cargo bound for Halifax. Forty-three hours later they landed at Market Wharf.

Young Catherine O'Neill, a child of St. Mary's Parish, walkded down to the wharf to see the sisters for the first time. She was to become their fourth postulant, and in time the leader of the congregation. Mother Elizabeth. It is also said that on the day of their arrival, they received their first orphan who later became a member of the congregation.'The one parochial school in Halifax at that time was St. Mary's on Barrington Street, a frame building, where the girls were taught by Miss Deborah Sweeny, and the boys by Mr. Fitzgerald. Part of this house was converted into a dwelling for the sisters. By November, 1849, they were teaching 400 pupils, caring for orphans, directing sodalities and Sunday school classes. By 1855 six young girls of the area had gone to New York to make their novitiate.

In 1855 Archbishop Walsh arranged with Archbishop Hughes and the Sisters of Charity in New York that the Halifax foundation should become a separate congregation. In December, 1855, Sister Basilia was appointed Mother of the new congregation. The formal approval of the new congregation was given by Pope Pius IX on February 17, 1856. Catherine O'Neill was among the first postulants welcome in 1856 at St. Mary's on Barrington Street.

Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception-St. John, New Brunswick

In 1854, Bishop Thomas Connelly of St. John, New Brunswick, visited the motherhouse of the New York Sisters of Charity to ask for a foundation in his diocese. Sister Mary Vincent (Honora Conway), at that time a novice with the New York sisters, agreed to return to St. John on completion of her formation. In 1856 she and four other young sisters formed the nucleous of a new congregation. Sister Mary Vincent is revered as co-founder, along with Bishop Connolly, of the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception.

Sisters of Charity of New York

n 1817, Mother Seton sent sisters to New York to open a home for orphan children. In 1846, these sisters became a separate congregation. Their motherhouse is known as Mount Saint Vincent-on-Hudson.

Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill-Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Shortly after the Civil War the bishop of Pittsburg asked the Cincinnati sisters to establish a branch of Mother Seton's sisters in his diocese. In 1870 the first motherhouse was opened which was later transferred to Greensburg and known as Seton Hill.