Edward Francis Ryan

Edward Francis Ryan was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Burlington from 1945 until his death in 1956.

Edward Ryan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Simon Joseph and Mary Ryan. After graduating from Ingalls Grammar School, he attended Lynn Classical High School and Boston College. He then furthered his studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where Ryan was ordained to the priesthood by Patriarch Giuseppe Ceppetelli on August 10, 1905. He then did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Boston, and served as a chaplain in the United States Army from 1919 to 1920.

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