Article: Michael Ryan and the Female Immigration Board in South Australia.

Michael Ryan was the priest who accompanied Francis Murphy, the first South Australian Catholic Bishop, to Adelaide in October 1844. For twenty odd years he served the Catholic community, travelling extensively and often over the colony to visit isolated parishioners. He acted as Vicar General for several periods and, during the absence of the Bishop, administered the diocese and was the Catholic spokesman on political issues such as the Marriage Act and Ordinance, the Grant-in-aid scheme and the Education Act. He was appointed to the newly established Destitute Board in 1849 as the Catholic representative along with clergy from other denominations. No doubt it was his ...

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