Roy Bourgeois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Roy Bourgeois

Founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch

Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1938

Place of Birth: Lutcher, Louisiana, United States

Profession: military officer, Catholic priest, human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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 1994 recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and the 2011 recipient of the 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, according to the Roman Catholic Church, considered an invalid ordination of a woman and "a simulated Mass" in Lexington, Kentucky.