Patrick Vincent Dwyer (1858-1931) was the first Australian born Roman Catholic Bishop.

[2] 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.

[3] His brother Joseph Wilfrid Dwyer DD (1869-1939) also studied in Dublin and Rome[4] and became a priest and served as a Bishop of Wagga.

[2] His nephew Francis Aloysius Dwyer (1902-1953) was a Supreme Court judge of New South Wales.

Bishop Patrick Dwyer died of coronary vascular disease in West Maitland on 28 March 1931 and was buried in the Sacred Heart Church.