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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti-aparthied icon and South Africa’s most famous cleric is dead.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a theologian and humanitarian who fought the white apartheid regime in South Africa from the pulpit.
He was the first black cleric to be appointed the Archbishop of Cape Town in 1986. Before then he had been the archbishop of Johannesburg, another first for a black cleric.
Bishop Tutu was appointed to chair the Peace and Reconciliation Committee set up by Pres. Nelson Mandela.
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A Nobel Peace Proze winner, Tutu died early Sunday. He was 90 years old.
