# Vincent Ryan

> Vincent Gerard Ryan was an Australian Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing 37 children. He was first charged in October 1995 and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. Ryan was the first Catholic priest in the Newcastle, New South Wales, region to be charged with child sexual abuse, and one of the first in the world to be convicted of such abuse.

*Australian Catholic priest*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/vincent-ryan

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Born:** 1938-04-22
- **Died:** 2022-05-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Vincent Gerard Ryan was an Australian Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing 37 children. He was first charged in October 1995 and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. Ryan was the first Catholic priest in the Newcastle, New South Wales, region to be charged with child sexual abuse, and one of the first in the world to be convicted of such abuse.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 37.5

## Sources
- [Vincent Ryan (priest)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ryan_(priest))
- [Vincent Ryan (priest)](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ryan_(priest))
- [Vincent Ryan (kultan, 1938)](https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ryan_(kultan%2C_1938))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108934112)

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