Athanasius O'Dwyer | ANZ Clergy


About Help Contact login Rev Athanasius O'Dwyer Title: Rev First Name: Athanasius Middle Names: Thomas Preferred Name: Surname: O'Dwyer Order: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 15-Feb-1922 Place of Death: Country of Death: Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Goulburn, NSW --- Presentation to the Rev. A.T. O'Dwyer, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 31 May 1884, p 18, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110066141: In our last issue we briefly noticed the presentation to the Rev. Athanasius Thomas O'Dwyer, by which the Catholics of Newtown expressed their reverence and esteem on the occasion of Father O'Dwyer's departure for his new charge at Five Dock. [...] --- Looking Backwards: Our Catholic Life of Long Ago. Notes from Our Files of 1882, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 27 March 1930, p 16, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121655564: In April Rev. Father A. T. O'Dwyer announced in St. Augustine's Church, Yass, that he was leaving the parish for good. The first Mass he celebrated in the colony was in the church that he would celebrate his last. His address was short and pathetic, and there was scarcely a dry eye in the church when he had concluded. --- Catholic Parish of St Augustine, Yass, Priests who have served in the Parish of Yass, July 2018, https://staug-yass.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/priests_list.pdf, accessed on 24 December 2025: "Rev. Father A.T. O'Dwyer, 1873-1878."

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Athanasius

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Thomas

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O'Dwyer

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15-Feb-1922

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Goulburn, NSW

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Presentation to the Rev. A.T. O'Dwyer, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 31 May 1884, p 18, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110066141:

In our last issue we briefly noticed the presentation to the Rev. Athanasius Thomas O'Dwyer, by which the Catholics of Newtown expressed their reverence and esteem on the occasion of Father O'Dwyer's departure for his new charge at Five Dock. [...]

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Looking Backwards: Our Catholic Life of Long Ago. Notes from Our Files of 1882, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 27 March 1930, p 16, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121655564:

In April Rev. Father A. T. O'Dwyer announced in St. Augustine's Church, Yass, that he was leaving the parish for good. The first Mass he celebrated in the colony was in the church that he would celebrate his last. His address was short and pathetic, and there was scarcely a dry eye in the church when he had concluded.

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Catholic Parish of St Augustine, Yass, Priests who have served in the Parish of Yass, July 2018, https://staug-yass.org.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/priests_list.pdf, accessed on 24 December 2025: "Rev. Father A.T. O'Dwyer, 1873-1878."

Rev Athanasius O'Dwyer

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