Brother Roger, (Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche), Swiss-born religious leader (born May 12, 1915, Provence, Switz.—died Aug. 16, 2005, Taizé, France), was the leader of a worldwide ecumenical movement centred at the monastic community that he founded (1940) in Taizé. Brother Roger, as he preferred to be called, devoted his life to the ideals ...