Patrick Vincent Dwyer was born on 21 August 1858 at
Albury, New South Wales, to William Dwyer, schoolteacher, and his wife, Anastasia, née Dermody, both his parents being from Kilkenny, Ireland. He was educated at
St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst, and on encouragement from Bishop James Murray he went to study for the priesthood in
Clonliffe College Dublin in Ireland and the Pontifical Urban University of Propaganda Fide in Rome, being ordained on 4 March 1882 after which he returned to Australia. Father Dwyer served as secretary to Bishop
Murray, Bishop of Maitland; and from 1882 to 1889 as diocesan inspector of schools. In 1897, he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop
Murray his mentor (the first Australian-born Catholic bishop) and then Bishop in 1909 of
Maitland, New South Wales, upon Murray's death. Bishop Dwyer wrote the "Diocese of Maitland" article for the
Catholic Encyclopedia. and became a priest and served as a Bishop of Wagga. ==References==