Name Patrick Dunne | ||
Patrick Dunne (1818–1900) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia.
He was born in Philipstown, now Daingean, County Offaly. He trained for the priesthood in St. Patrick's, Carlow College, ordained in 1846, and served for four years in the Diocese of Kildare. In 1850 he went to Australia, serving in the goldfields and many new Church and Educational Developments, he returned to Ireland in 1859 after a dispute with the hierarchy in Melbourne.
In 1859 he founded the short-lived St. Brigid's Seminary in Tullamore which closed in 1866, Fr. Dunne intended this to be a minor seminary preparing priests to minister in Australia.
He served as Vicar General of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, and was founding President of St Patrick's College, Goulburn in 1874.
Dunne's nephew, John Dunne DD, was the inaugural Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilcannia.