Desmond tutu

Desmond Tutu

By lambertw
  • birth

    birth

    born in klerksdorp,nearby johannesburg

  • diploma

    teacher's diploma

  • marrige

    marrige a woman called leah Nomalizo Shenxane

  • resigning from teaching

    resign to begain ordination training st Peter theological College in johannesburg

  • Anglican priest

    he became an Anglican priest

  • traveled to england

    traveled to england to further pursue theological study

  • the return

    Returns to South Africa to teach at the Federal Theological Seminary at Alice on the Eastern Cape

  • theology

    Lectures in theology at the University of Botswana in Roma, Lesotho

  • the first black Anglican

    he becomes first black Anglican Dean of Johannesburg

  • first black General

    he was appointed as the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches

  • Nobel peace prize

    Gets Nobel peace prize for speaking out against apartheid

  • Anglican bishop of Johannesburg

    Elected as Johannesburg's first black Anglican bishop

  • the first black Achbishop of Cape town

    Elected as first black Archbishop of Cape Town

  • Leads Truth and Reconciliation Commission

    Leads Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to gather evidence of apartheid-era crimes

  • trveles to Gaza

    Travels to Gaza on a UN mission, to investigate the killing of 21 Palestinian civilians, by Israeli shelling, in November 2006.

  • the Prize

    Presented with the International Gandhi Peace Prize