Peter William Dwyer, 67, now of Bellingen, faces 12 charges of abuse, most with a 13-year-old boy in 1982.

His trial at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court will begin on April 27.

Dwyer is one of nine former staff members of St Stanislaus’ College in Bathurst - five priests, two ex-priests, one brother and one lay teacher - who face a total of more than 200 charges over alleged sexual abuse of students in the 1970s and 1980s.

None has pleaded guilty.

Five have been committed for trial.

Charges against the nine men were laid following investigations by detectives attached to Operation Belle and a series of arrests from September 2008.

After leaving St Stanislaus in 1992, Dwyer worked at the main Catholic seminar in Sydney and became a priest with the Armidale parish.