Patrick Kelly was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia (1820–1822) and as bishop of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland (1822–1829).

The Diocese of Richmond is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in Virginia in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore.