Early Life
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.
After military service, he entered the Maryknoll Society in 1966; then entered the seminary of the Catholic missionary society of Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America), and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1972.
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