Vincent Ryan (bishop)

The Right Reverend Vincent Ryan
Bishop of Mauritius
Vincent Ryan, First Bishop of Mauritius
Church	Church of England
Elected	1854
Installed	30 November 1854
Retired	24 February 1869
Predecessor	New Title
Successor	Thomas Hatchard
Other post(s)	Suffolk (archdcn.); Craven (archdcn.); Ripon (comm.)
Personal details
Born	(1816-12-08)8 December 1816 Collins Barracks, Cork, United Kingdom
Died	11 January 1888(1888-01-11) (aged 71) Stanhope, Durham, United Kingdom
Spouse	Elizabeth Dowse ​ ​ (m. 1840; died 1894)​
Children	7
Education	Magdalen Hall, University of Oxford (BA, MA, BD, DD)
Ordination history
History Diaconal ordination Ordained by Charles Sumner Date 1840 Place Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, Diocese of Winchester Priestly ordination Ordained by Charles Sumner Date 1842 Place Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, Diocese of Winchester Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator John Bird Sumner Co-consecrators John Lonsdale, John Graham, and George Tomlinson Date 30 November 1854 Place Lambeth Palace Chapel, Diocese of Canterbury

Vincent William Ryan (8 December 1816 – 11 January 1888), was the inaugural Bishop of Mauritius from 1854 to 1869.

He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and ordained in 1842 On his return from Mauritius he became Rector of Bedale. After holding for just four months the archdeaconry of Suffolk, Ryan became rector of St. Nicholas, Guildford, and commissary of Winchester. In May 1870 he was transferred to the vicarage of Bradford, Yorkshire. He was rural dean from 1870 to 1876, and in 1875 became archdeacon of Craven and commissary to the bishop of Ripon. In 1872 he went on a special mission to Mauritius. In August 1880 Ryan became vicar of St. Peter's, Bournemouth, and in 1881 rector of Middleham, from where he moved in 1883 to the rectory of Stanhope, Durham.

He died at Stanhope on 11 January 1888.

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ryan, Vincent William". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.