. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . cked on Body island. N. C., and Ryan, withmost of his officers and crew, was drowned. Atthe time of his death he was one of the most sci-entific navigators of the service. RYAN, James, R. C. bishop, b. in Thurles,Coun-ty Tipperary, Ireland, in 1848. He came to theUnited States when a child, and studied for thepriesthood in the seminaries of St. Thomas andSt. Joseph, Bardstown. Ky. He was subsequentlyprofessor in St. Josephs seminary. After his ordi-nation he was on the Kentucky mission for sevenyears, principally at St. Martins, Meade co., andat
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . cked on Body island. N. C., and Ryan, withmost of his officers and crew, was drowned. Atthe time of his death he was one of the most sci-entific navigators of the service. RYAN, James, R. C. bishop, b. in Thurles,Coun-ty Tipperary, Ireland, in 1848. He came to theUnited States when a child, and studied for thepriesthood in the seminaries of St. Thomas andSt. Joseph, Bardstown. Ky. He was subsequentlyprofessor in St. Josephs seminary. After his ordi-nation he was on the Kentucky mission for sevenyears, principally at St. Martins, Meade co., andat Elizabethtown, Hardin co. He removed to thePeoria diocese in Illinois in 1878, and was ap-pointed pastor at Wataga. He was afterwardtransferred to Danville, and in 1881 he was maderector of Ottawa, where his administration wasvery successful. In 1888 he was nominated to thebishopric of Alton. RYAN, Patrick John, R. C. archbishop, b. inCloneyharp, near Thurles. Ireland, 20 Feb., was educated at Thurles and Dublin, and en- 360 RYAN RYDER. tered Carle >w college, with a view of preparing him-self for the American mission. He was ordaineddeacon in 1853, and set out the same year for Mo., where lie finished his ecclesiastical stud-ies in Carondelet seminary, and was raised to the priesthood in If rose to be vicar-general, on 15 Feb.,1872, was electedcoadjutorarehbish-op of St. Louis, andconsecrated underthe title of bishopof Tricomia on 14April. Owing tothe great age ofArchbishop Ken-rick, most of thework of governingthe diocese fell tohis share, and hisadministration wasenergetic and suc-cessful. He wasnominated arch-bishop of Philadelphia on 8 June, 1884. BishopIi\an was one of the prelates that were selected in1883 to represent the interests of the Roman Catho-lics of the United States in Rome. He was presentat the third plenary council of Baltimore in 1884,at which the opening discourse, The Church inher Councils, was pronounced by him. Ik- wentto Ro
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