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Thu 01 Jan 2007Successor in Armagh outlines his vision for churchBishop Alan Harper tells Patsy McGarryof the importance of faith, family and dialogueJust as with St Patrick, who he (and the Catholic primate Archbishop Seán Brady) succeeds in Armagh, Bishop Alan Harper comes from the larger island in this archipelago. Born in 1944, he was raised and educated at Tamworth in Staffordshire, England, before going to Leeds University, from where he graduated with a geography degree in 1965.