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Desmond Tutu

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)

  • Married to Nomalizo Leah Tutu
  • Dated 7 October 1931 CE – 26 December 2021 CE

bishop of Lesotho
general secretary
Bishop of Johannesburg

Offices on record

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Life

Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

Offices held 4

  1. August 1976 CE – March 1978 CE bishop of Lesotho
  2. March 1978 CE – February 1985 CE general secretary
  3. February 1985 CE – 7 September 1986 CE Bishop of Johannesburg
  4. 7 September 1986 CE – June 1996 CE Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

Family

The family of Desmond Tutu

Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.

Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.

As documented
The family as a list · 2

Family 2

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation

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Texts

In the texts

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Sources

Sources and evidence

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8 statements on this record

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Data
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Text
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Pictures
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Review

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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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