Roy Bourgeois
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Bourgeois at Busboys and Poets, September 2012
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| Born |
January 27, 1938 Lutcher, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Louisiana, Lafayette |
| Occupation | Roman Catholic Priest (former) |
| Known for | SOA Watch (founder) |
| Website | www |
Roy Bourgeois (born January 27, 1938 in Lutcher, Louisiana) is an American activist, a laicized Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch). He is the recipient of the 2011 American Peace Award and also has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1972 in the Roman Catholic Church's Maryknoll society of apostolic life's Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers (The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America), Bourgeois was canonically dismissed forty years later, on October 4, 2012, from both the Maryknolls and the priesthood, because of his participation on August 9, 2008, in what was the invalid ordination of a woman and "a simulated Mass" in Lexington, Kentucky.
Bourgeois was born in Lutcher, Louisiana. He grew up in a conservative working-class family, and attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in geology. After graduation, Bourgeois entered the United States Navy and served as an officer for four years. He spent two years at sea, one year at a station in Europe, and two tours of duty during one year in Vietnam, during the first of which he was injured and received the Purple Heart.
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