Ivan Payne
Irish Roman Catholic priest and is a convicted child molester
Ivan Payne (born August 1943) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and is a convicted child molester.
Career
He was ordained a priest in 1967 and was attached to the Archdiocese of Dublin. His first appointment was as chaplain in a convent in Killiney, County Dublin from February 1968 to September 1978. He was subsequently appointed chaplain at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin between February 1968 and October 1970. He subsequently studied full-time at University College Dublin. He studied canon law between 1974 and 1976. Payne was appointed Vice Officialis of the Dublin Regional Marriage Tribunal in 1985 by Archbishop Kevin McNamara, which dealt with married Catholics seeking marriage annulments from its inception in 1976 and held this position until 1995. He was appointed to Cabra parish where he remained until 1981. From 1982 until 1995 he served in Sutton parish. He was removed from the ministry in 1995 following an allegation of sex abuse with a minor.
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