Patrick Vincent Dwyer

Patrick Vincent Dwyer (born August 21, 1858 in Albury , New South Wales , † March 28, 1931 ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Maitland .

Life

Patrick Vincent Dwyer was born in 1858 to the teacher William Dwyer and his wife Anastasia (née Dermody). His parents were originally from Kilkenny , Ireland . In 1862 his father became a school inspector in Bathurst District. Five years later he was transferred to Maitland . Patrick Vincent Dwyer was the older brother of Joseph Wilfrid Dwyer , Bishop of Wagga Wagga .

Dwyer attended St Stanislaus College in Bathurst and there attracted the attention of Bishop James Murray . Bishop Murray later convinced Dwyer's father to send his son to Holy Cross College in Clonliffe, Dublin . In Clonliffe he developed a close friendship with Columba Marmion , whose views influenced him throughout his clerical career. Subsequently, Dwyer went to Rome to study at the Pontifical Urban University . He was ordained a priest in Rome on March 4, 1882, and returned to Maitland shortly afterwards.

Dwyer became Bishop Murray's secretary and school inspector for the diocese. From 1888 he was president of the Sacred Heart College in West Maitland. When Bishop Murray asked for a coadjutor , the choice fell on Dwyer, although the priests in the diocese would have preferred the then Vicar General Patrick Hand. On January 30, 1897, Dwyer was appointed titular bishop of Zoara , and coadjutor of Maitland. He became the first bishop to be born in Australia.

He was ordained episcopal on June 6th of the same year by the Archbishop of Sydney , Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran . Co -consecrators were Bishop Murray and the Bishop of Bathurst , Joseph Patrick Byrne .

With James Murray's death on July 9, 1909, he succeeded him as Bishop of Maitland. In this role he continued the work of his predecessor in many areas. Unlike the latter, however, he no longer had the priests of the diocese trained in Ireland or Rome, but at St Patrick's College . Dwyer was also more talented than his predecessor in financial matters.

He died of coronary artery disease on March 28, 1931 and was buried in the Sacred Heart Church on Campbells Hill . The church was part of an orphanage Dwyer founded in memory of Bishop Murray.

Like his brother, Patrick Dwyer was very interested in culture. He was an accomplished pianist and was interested in history and archeology .

Web links

• McMinn WG: Patrick Vincent Dwyer . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
• Entry for Patrick Vincent Dwyer on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
James Murray	Bishop of Maitland 1909–1931	Edmund Gleeson CSsR