Patrick Geoghegan
Patrick Bonaventure Geoghegan, O.F.M. (1805–1864) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served firstly as Bishop of Adelaide. Born in Dublin, he became a Franciscan friar and served at a Dublin parish before volunteering for Australia. After five years as Bishop of Adelaide, He returned to Ireland, intending to stay only briefly. He was named Bishop of Goulburn, Australia, but died before he could assume the post. Geoghegan built St Francis' Church, Melbourne, the earliest surviving Catholic church in Victoria (Australia). A memorial tablet marks his grave in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Dublin; and there is a statue of Bishop Geoghegan outside St. Francis Church in Melbourne. Life Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was baptised on 17 March 1805. Orphaned at the age of 8, non-Catholic relatives of his father first sent him to a Protestant institution, before a Franciscan priest temporarily placed him in an orphanage. The Franciscans later sent him to school in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland. At the age of sixteen he entered St. Patrick's College, Lisbon. He was professed as a member of the Order of Friars Minor at Coimbra on 21 February 1830 as Friar Bonaventure, and ordained to the priesthood on