Reverend Father Barry Ryan (born 1949) is a U.S. Roman Catholic priest who, in late December 2004, pleaded guilty to repeatedly molesting a six-year-old boy, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison. After his ordination in 1976, Ryan worked in parishes in Brooklyn, New York before enlisting as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force in 1984. He left the Air Force in 1995 after allegations of improper sexual conduct while he had been stationed at Mobile, Alabama. Also, Ryan was suspended from his priestly duties.