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04. Desmond Tutu 鈥� Priesthood and Becoming an Archbishop

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Tutu had a strong religious background. His grandfather was a minister of the African Independent Church. His church role model, Father Sekgaphane and First Anglican priest, Trevor Huddleston (who spoke for the poor and the oppressed), inspired Tutu to become a priest.

Tutu studied the Licentiate of Theology at St Peter Secondary School in 1960, and passed with two distinctions. In 1961, just a year after the historical Sharpeville massacre, Tutu was ordained as an Anglican priest.

Tutu鈥榮 timeline from priesthood to becoming an elected Archbishop of Cape Town:

  • 1961鈥� Tutu is ordained as an Anglican priest.
  • 1975鈥撀燘ecame the first black appointed Anglican Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg.
  • 1976 to 1978 鈥� Tutu is ordained as Bishop of Lesotho.
  • 1978 鈥� Tutu聽becomes the first black secretary general of the interdenominational South African Council of Churches.
  • 1985 鈥揟utu became the Bishop of Johannesburg.
  • 1986 鈥揟utu is elected Archbishop of Cape Town, becoming the head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho.
  • 1986 鈥揟utu became the Archbishop of Cape Town, the most senior position in Southern Africa’s Anglican hierarchy. In this position, he emphasised a consensus-building model of leadership and oversaw the聽.
  • 1986 鈥� Tutu became president of the聽.
  • 1994 鈥� October Tutu announced his intention to retire as Archbishop.

You can read more about Trevor Huddleston from a book, Trevor聽Huddleston: a life, written by Robin Denniston published in 1999 in London by Macmillan, available in Kingsway Library book Level 3, shelf no for library use only.

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Read more about the Sharpeville Massacre:

Sharpeville Massacre collection housed at the UJ Archives and Special Collections @DFC

The UJ Library catalogue is available on

1.聽 Frankel, P. (2001). An ordinary atrocity:聽Sharpeville聽and its massacre. New Haven: Yale 欧美福利100000 Press.
Available at: Special Collections-UJ Archives @ DFC, Shelf no

2. Tyler, H. (1995). Life in the time of聽Sharpeville: And wayward seeds of a new South Africa. Cape Town: Kwela Books.
Availability: 聽Special Collections-UJ Archives @ DFC, Shelf no

3. Reeves, A. (1961). Shooting at聽Sharpeville: The agony of South Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Availability: Special Collections-UJ Archives @ DFC, shelf no .

4. Sachs, B. (1961). The road to聽Sharpeville. Johannesburg: Dial Press.
Available at: Special collections-UJ Archives @ DFC, shelf no: