Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town, used his role as a church leader to bring religion into the fight against apartheid, South Africa’s repressive system of racial segregation.

Tutu was named the Archbishop of Cape Town, making Tutu the spiritual leader of the 1.5 million Anglicans in South Africa, of whom 80 percent were black. As archbishop, Tutu approved the ...

Flowers are laid over the coffin of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the ... and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the ...