Assignment Record – Rev. Cornelius J. Ryan, c.s.c.

INDIANA
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Summary of Case: A Holy Cross priest of the Indiana Province ordained in 1966, Ryan lived and worked in Africa until 1999, when he returned to Indiana. In June 2013 Ryan was serving as administrator of a Fort Wayne parish when he was removed due to what his superior deemed a “credible” allegation of the sexual abuse of a boy twenty years earlier in Africa. Ryan had been sent to the Ft. Wayne parish in December 2011, after the parish’s previous pastor was removed due to allegations of child sexual abuse.

Ordained: 1966

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