The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Moran, Right Rev. Patrick
Moran, Right Rev. Patrick, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, N.Z., was born in co. Wicklow, Ireland, on May 24th, 1823, and educated at the School of the Vincentian Fathers in Dublin, at St. Peter's College, Wexford, Castletrunck Seminary, and at the Royal College, Maynooth. He was ordained priest in 1847, and in 1848 was appointed supernumerary priest at Booterstown, and in 1849 curate of Haddington Road, co. Dublin. In 1856 he was appointed by the Pope Bishop of Dardania and Vicar-Apostolic of the Eastern Districts of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1869 he was made first Bishop of Dunedin, where he established the New Zealand Tablet. In 1888 he stood for a seat in the House of Representatives for the Peninsula constituency against Mr. W. M. J. Larnach, with a view of advancing the cause of religious education, but was defeated by a large majority.