(Originally published in 1880. This volume from the Cornel...)
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Stephen Vincent Ryan, the son of Martin and Catherine (McCarthy) Ryan, recent immigrants from County Clare, Ireland, was born near Almonte, Lanark County, Ont. , where some selected Irish peasants had been settled as an experiment in British colonization. Discouraged over agriculture in the cold North, the family in 1828 found its way to Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Stephen received his early training and experienced a vocation for the priesthood in Pottsville. He entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, but on joining the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists, Vincentians) in 1844 he was enrolled at St. Mary's Seminary at the Barrens, Mo. , where he completed his theological studies.
On June 24, 1849 Ryan was ordained a priest by Archbishop Peter R. Kenrick of St. Louis. An instructor at St. Mary's Seminary from 1849 to 1851, and later a professor and rector of the Lazarist College of St. Vincent at Cape Girardeau, Mo. , in 1857 at a general synod in Paris he was elected visitor general of his order in America.
In addition to managing its churches and seminaries for years, he established in 1867 a new motherhouse and novitiate of the order at Germantown, Pa. , and St. John's College in Brooklyn.
On the death of his fellow Vincentian, Bishop John Timon of Buffalo, he was elevated, against his will, to that see by Pope Pius IX and consecrated on November 8, 1868. As bishop, he found himself in continual disagreement with Bishop Bernard McQuaid of Rochester. There were not only diocesan boundary disputes (which were not settled by Rome to the satisfaction of McQuaid until Ryan's death) but marked differences over matters of policy. As a liberal who was in harmony with Archbishop John Ireland, he disagreed with the rigorous McQuaid on the school question, on the affair of Edward McGlynn, on the candidacy of Sylvester Malone for a regency of the University of New York, and on episcopal "autocracy" in handling priests out of joint with the administration. Indeed, he supported Fathers Louis A. Lambert and James M. Early against McQuaid, who winced under the criticism of the independent Catholic Union and Times, a diocesan paper founded by Ryan in 1872 as the Catholic Union of Buffalo and merged in 1881 with the Catholic Times of Rochester as the Catholic Union and Times.
Ryan died at Buffalo, aged 71, and was interred next to Bishop John Timon at St. Joseph's Cathedral.
Ryan published a sound pastoral on the eve of his ad limina visit to Rome (New York Freeman's Journal, Sept. 14, 1878), improved vastly Our Lady of Angels Seminary at Niagara, promoted secondary schools, and built a number of parochial schools. He also developed his diocese and saw its population and its priesthood double during his regime. A controversialist of considerable ability, he published "Claims of a Protestant Episcopal Bishop to Apostolic Succession and Valid Orders Disproved" (1880) as a result of a controversy with Bishop A. C. Coxe of Western New York, and a substantial article on Early Lazarist Missions and Missionaries (1887).
(Originally published in 1880. This volume from the Cornel...)
