Patrick J. Ryan (chaplain)

Chaplain Patrick James Ryan, USA was an American military officer who served as Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army from 1954 to 1958.

Ryan was born near Manannah Township, Minnesota on December 12, 1902. He would graduate from the College of St. Thomas and the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity and became an ordained Roman Catholic priest. He was later given the title of Monsignor by Pope Pius XII and the title of Prothonotary Apostolic by Pope Paul VI. Ryan died on June 5, 1975, in Washington, D.C..

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