Alan McGuckian
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The Most Reverend Alan McGuckian SJ |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Metropolis | Archdiocese of Armagh |
| Diocese | Diocese of Raphoe |
| Appointed | 9 June 2017 |
| Predecessor | Philip Boyce |
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| Ordination | 22 June 1984 |
| Consecration | 6 August 2017 by Eamon Martin |
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| Birth name | Alexander Aloysius McGuckian |
| Born |
26 February 1953 Cloughmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
Alexander Aloysius "Alan" McGuckian SJ (born 26 February 1953) is an Irish Roman Catholic bishop and Jesuit. Since 2017, he has been the Bishop of Raphoe.
Born in 1953 in Cloughmills, Co Antrim in the Diocese of Down and Connor his father , Brian was a successful pig farmer who, with his brothers, went on to develop the world's biggest pig farm.
Two of his older brothers, Fathers Bernard and Michael are also Jesuit priests, while yet another brother John B is one of Ireland's most successful businessmen McGuckian went to Queens University, Belfast in 1971 to study Irish and Philosophy, where he was a near contemporary of the Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown with whom he shared north Antrim roots and an education at St MacNissi's College, Garron Tower.
After one year in Belfast, he joined the Jesuit novitiate in Clontarf in Dublin, continuing his university education in University College Dublin specifically for a degree in Spanish and Latin. He graduated in 1977 and progressed to study Philosophy in the Jesuit Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy and then Theology in the Toronto School of Theology (the Jesuit Regis College, University of Toronto) qualifying with a M.Div and STL.
He was ordained to the priesthood in 1984 and spent a short time teaching in Clongowes Wood College.
In 1992 he was appointed Director of the Jesuit Communications Centre and in that role one of his notable successes was the development of the website www.sacredspace.ie which harnessed new technology to offer people computer resources in order to develop a life of prayer.
From 2011 to 2017 he worked fulltime in the Living Church office of the Diocese of Down and Connor, helping renew pastoral life across the diocese.
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