Roy Bourgeois
American activist and former Catholic priest (born 1938) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roy Bourgeois (born January 27, 1938) is an American activist, a former Catholic priest, and the founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch).[1] He is the 1994 recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award[2] and the 2011 recipient of the American Peace Award[3] and also has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.[4]
Roy Bourgeois | |
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Born | (1938-12-15) December 15, 1938 (age 85) Lutcher, Louisiana, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Louisiana, Lafayette |
Occupation | Activist |
Known for | SOA Watch (founder) |
Website | roybourgeoisjourney |
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, according to the Roman Catholic Church, considered an invalid ordination of a woman and "a simulated Mass" in Lexington, Kentucky.[5]