John Ryan

Bishop John Alphonsus Ryan S.P.S., is an Irish Catholic bishop and academic, who was the Bishop of Mzuzu Bishop of Mzuzu in Malawi. Ryan was born in Holy Cross, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. He joined the Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions, studying theology in Kiltegan, Wicklow, and Philosophy and Mathematics in University College Cork gaining a Masters and Doctorate in Mathematics. Professor Ryan came to Malawi in 1978 shortly after his ordination.