Jack Ayers | ANZ Clergy


About Help Contact login Rev Jack Ayers SDB Title: Rev First Name: John Middle Names: Preferred Name: Jack Surname: Ayers Order: SDB Date of Birth: 1929 Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 04-Apr-2012 Place of Death: Country of Death: Samoa Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130212070 FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Father John (‘Jack’) Ayers, MoodyLaw, https://www.moodylaw.com.au/father-john-ayers, accessed 19 August 2026: Father John (‘Jack’) Ayers was a Salesian priest who joined the Salesian Order in the early 1950s. He helped to open Salesian College at Chadstone (in Melbourne's south-east) in 1957. In the early 1960s, Father Ayers was teaching at Salesian College in Brooklyn Park, Adelaide, South Australia. In the 1970’s, he taught/worked at Boys Town, a Salesian home for disadvantaged boys, at Engadine in western Sydney. Like other members of the Salesian Order, Father Ayers is known to have committed child sexual abuse in the 1960s whilst he taught at Rupertswood College. Civil settlements have been made in the past by the Salesian Order in relation to Father Ayers sexually abusing students at Rupertswood College. He is known also to have committed further abuses in Adelaide previous to Rupertswood in the early 1960s and after in Sydney in the 1970s. In the 1990s the Salesians transferred Ayers to Samoa in order to put Ayers beyond the reach of Australian police. In 2011, Victoria Police were gathering evidence in order to prosecute Father Ayers, but due to his location and health at the time, they found it too difficult to bring him before a court of law in Victoria. Father Ayers died in Samoa in 2012, aged 83. [...] --- Cenotaph in Rupertswood, Sunbury, Melbourne.

Title:

Rev

First Name:

John

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Jack

Surname:

Ayers

Order:

SDB

Date of Birth:

1929

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Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

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Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

04-Apr-2012

Place of Death:

Country of Death:

Samoa

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Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130212070

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Father John (‘Jack’) Ayers, MoodyLaw, https://www.moodylaw.com.au/father-john-ayers, accessed 19 August 2026:

Father John (‘Jack’) Ayers was a Salesian priest who joined the Salesian Order in the early 1950s. He helped to open Salesian College at Chadstone (in Melbourne's south-east) in 1957. In the early 1960s, Father Ayers was teaching at Salesian College in Brooklyn Park, Adelaide, South Australia. In the 1970’s, he taught/worked at Boys Town, a Salesian home for disadvantaged boys, at Engadine in western Sydney.

Like other members of the Salesian Order, Father Ayers is known to have committed child sexual abuse in the 1960s whilst he taught at Rupertswood College. Civil settlements have been made in the past by the Salesian Order in relation to Father Ayers sexually abusing students at Rupertswood College. He is known also to have committed further abuses in Adelaide previous to Rupertswood in the early 1960s and after in Sydney in the 1970s. In the 1990s the Salesians transferred Ayers to Samoa in order to put Ayers beyond the reach of Australian police. In 2011, Victoria Police were gathering evidence in order to prosecute Father Ayers, but due to his location and health at the time, they found it too difficult to bring him before a court of law in Victoria. Father Ayers died in Samoa in 2012, aged 83. [...]

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Cenotaph in Rupertswood, Sunbury, Melbourne.

Rev Jack Ayers SDB

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