A TRAINEE Port priest is preparing for his official ordination next month after seven years of study and a delay due to the pandemic.

Deacon Ryan Black has been completing his final semester of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome from home due to Covid-19.

The 28-year-old has been completing his seminary training online from his home in Port Glasgow since Italian universities were closed in March.

Ryan says he has enjoyed the unusual end to his studies.

He said: "It has been a strange last few months of preparation.