Ivan Jones Page attended St Kevin's Christian Brother College, Melbourne and graduated in arts from the University of Melbourne. He worked for the National Library of Australia for 15 years before joining the Missionaries of Africa. He worked in Burkina Faso for a decade and then became archivist and librarian of his order in Rome.
Page published bibliographical works and books on the history of the Missionaries of Africa.
Source: Juliet Flesch, 'Missionary Priest Was Scholar and Connoisseur', Saturday Age, 'Business Day', (6 October 2012): 35.
