Patrick Bonaventure Geoghegan, O.F.M. 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
Statue of Bishop Geoghegan erected outside St Francis' Church, Melbourne
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Dublin, formerly St. Francis, (popularly Adam and Eve's)
St Francis Catholic Church, Melbourne, Australia
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin Rite metropolitan archdiocese in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne, a suffragan diocese of th
Patrick Geoghegan
…1859. The principal consecrator was Archbishop John Bede Polding OSB of Sydney, and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop James Alipius Goold of Melbourne, and Bishop Robert William Willson of Hobart. Geoghegan took possession of the see in the following November, and held it for about five years. In 1862…
St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne