The Barbados Consulate of New York Independence Honors 2023: The Reverend Canon Ryan A. Boyce – Consul General’s Award for Religion and Community Outreach Service.

The Reverend Canon Ryan Antonio Boyce was born in Barbados where he attended the Alleyne Secondary/High School and The University of the West Indies. He holds undergraduate degrees in Law, Political Science, and Theology.  He has completed certification in Canon (Church) Law, Chaplaincy, Police Chaplaincy and is  currently completing a Master of Science Degree in Forensic and Counseling Psychology. 

Rev. Boyce spent over a year in the Diocese of the North Eastern Caribbean in the Archdeaconry of St. Kitts.  In Barbados, he served as Curate of St. Leonard’s Anglican Church and Christ Church Parish Church.  He was the Priest-in-Charge of St Catherine’s Anglican Church.  Canon Boyce was a government appointee serving on the Board of Directors for the Barbados National Housing Corporation. He was also a Director of the Barbados Child Care Board (Children’s Services) and had special oversight of delinquency within the children’s homes.  He was the Chaplain of the Barbados Boys and Girls Industrial School (Juvenile Delinquency Incarceration) before relocation to the United States of America.

In the United States, He served as a Priest-in-Charge of the St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Atlantic City,  St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, in Hollis Queens, and also as the Police Chaplain for the New Jersey State Police, the Pleasantville Police and Fire Department, Community Probation Supervisor for Pleasantville Court, and Atlantic County Court Probation Departments.  He also served as Chaplain to the New Jersey Department of Justice Juvenile Correctional Facilities and New Jersey’s First responder and emergency Chaplain.  

Reverend Boyce is also a Community Council Clergy Liaison for the 103 Precinct and sits on the Commander’s Advisory Council for the New York Police Department.  

He is an advocate for many youth development programs and works with many schools and juvenile delinquency centers in the communities.

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