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'''Desmond Tutu''' (7 October 1931{{spnd}}26 December 2021) wasis a [[South Africa|South African]] [[Anglican bishop]] and [[Christian theology|theologian]], known for his work as an [[Internal resistance to apartheid|anti-apartheid]] and [[human rights activist]]. He was [[Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg|Bishop of Johannesburg]] from 1985 to 1986 and then [[Anglican Diocese of Cape Town|Archbishop of Cape Town]] from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from [[Black theology]] with [[African theology]].

Tutu was born of mixed [[Xhosa people|Xhosa]] and [[Tswana people|Motswana]] heritage to a poor family in [[Klerksdorp]], [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]]. Entering adulthood, he trained as a teacher and married [[Nomalizo Leah Tutu]], with whom he had several children. In 1960, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1962 moved to the United Kingdom to study theology at [[King's College London]]. In 1966 he returned to southern Africa, teaching at the [[Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa|Federal Theological Seminary]] and then the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]. In 1972, he became the Theological Education Fund's director for Africa, a position based in London but necessitating regular tours of the African continent. Back in southern Africa in 1975, he served first as [[Dean (Christianity)|dean]] of [[St Mary's Cathedral, Johannesburg|St Mary's Cathedral]] in [[Johannesburg]] and then as [[Bishop of Lesotho]]; from 1978 to 1985 he was general-secretary of the [[South African Council of Churches]]. He emerged as one of the most prominent opponents of South Africa's [[apartheid]] system of [[racial segregation]] and [[Minoritarianism#Dominant minority|white minority rule]]. Although warning the [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] government that anger at apartheid would lead to racial violence, as an activist he stressed [[Nonviolent resistance|non-violent protest]] and foreign economic pressure to bring about [[universal suffrage]].