Paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan dead at 84

Notorious paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan has died at the age of 84.

Ryan, known as Vince Ryan, was jailed for more than two decades for abusing 37 known victims, dating back to the 1970s.

He completed his studies in Rome a decade earlier, before becoming a parish priest in the beachside Newcastle suburb of Merewether.

He went on to work as a parish priest across the New South Wales' Hunter Valley until he was first jailed in 1996.

His abuse survivors are angry he has died without being stripped of holy orders, or defrocked.

The Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese will not comment on his death.

SAUCE: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-30/paedophile-priest-vince-ryan-dead-/101109620