Desmond Tutu
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The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu |
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| Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa | |
Tutu in 2013
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| Province | Anglican Church of Southern Africa |
| See | Cape Town (retired) |
| Installed | 7 September 1986 |
| Term ended | 1996 |
| Predecessor | Philip Russell |
| Successor | Njongonkulu Ndungane |
| Other posts | Bishop of Lesotho Bishop of Johannesburg Archbishop of Cape Town |
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| Ordination | Deacon Priest – 1961 |
| Consecration | 1976 |
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| Birth name | Desmond Mpilo Tutu |
| Born |
7 October 1931 Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
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Styles of Desmond Tutu |
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| Reference style | Archbishop |
| Spoken style | Your Grace |
| Religious style | The Most Reverend |
Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CH (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Tutu's admirers see him as a great man who, since the demise of apartheid, has been active in the defence of human rights and uses his high-profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal, the second of four children of Zacheriah Zililo Tutu and his wife, Aletta Tutu, and the only son. Tutu's family moved to Johannesburg when he was twelve. His father was a teacher and his mother was a cleaner and cook at a school for the blind. Here he met Trevor Huddleston, who was a parish priest in the black slum of Sophiatown. "One day," said Tutu, "I was standing in the street with my mother when a white man in a priest's clothing walked past. As he passed us he took off his hat to my mother. I couldn't believe my eyes—a white man who greeted a black working class woman!"
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