Stanley Rother, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stanley Rother

American priest

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Okarche, Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 28-Jul-1981

Profession: Catholic priest, Bible translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Stanley Francis Rother (March 27, 1935 – July 28, 1981) was an American Roman Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala.
Ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City in 1963, he held several parish assignments there until 1968 when he was assigned as a missionary priest to Guatemala where he was murdered in 1981 in his Guatemalan mission rectory. On December 1, 2016, Pope Francis issued a decree confirming that Rother had been killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith) which would allow him to be beatified.
Rother was beatified on September 23, 2017, during a Mass at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.
He is the first US-born priest and martyr to be beatified by the Catholic Church and the second person to be beatified on US soil following the 2014 beatification of New Jersey-born nun Miriam Teresa Demjanovich.