Patrick Dougherty (bishop)

Patrick Dougherty ( born November 21, 1931 in Kensington, New South Wales, † August 30 2010 in Bathurst, New South Wales) was an Australian theologian and Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst.

Life

Patrick Dougherty studied from 1950 at St. Patrick 's College in Manly, and later at the Propaganda Fide College in Rome. He received on 7 December 1954, the ordained priest in Rome by Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi, Secretary of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide, and was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Sydney. In 1957 he completed his doctoral studies in spiritual theology at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. After a year in pastoral ministry at St. Mel 's, Campsie, one of the suburbs of Sydney, he returned to Rome and ended at the request of Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy his research project about Mary Potter (1847-1913), founder of the Congregation of Little Company of Mary. He was involved in the formation of priests and taught from 1959 to 1961, the subjects logic, history of philosophy, Latin and Italian at St. Columba 's College, Springwood, 1961 was dean of the Faculty of Theology and Spiritual for the freshmen. In 1962, he returned as an assistant vice- rector of the Propaganda Fide College in Rome and was established in 1967 as Vice Rector. In 1970 he returned to Australia and became secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in Canberra.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him Titular Bishop of Lete in 1976 and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Canberra - Goulburn. He received his episcopal consecration on December 8, 1978, the Archbishop of Canberra, Thomas Vincent Cahill; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal James Darcy Freeman, and Archbishop Gino Paro, Apostolic Nuncio in Australia.

1983 Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of the Diocese of Bathurst. Pope Benedict XVI. upheld its age-related resignation in 2008.

Writings

• Mother Mary Potter, Foundress of the Little Company of Mary, 1963