The Washington Post. He’d been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997, and he’d been hospitalized a few times since 2015.Born Desmond Mpilo Tutu on October 7, 1931, in the city of Klerksdorp, he became a teacher before he entered St.
Peter’s Theological College in Rosetenville in 1958. He was ordained in 1961.Tutu became bishop of Lesotho, chairman of the South African Council of Churches, then he became the first Black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg in 1985, according to the Post.
A year later, Tutu was named the first Black archbishop of Cape Town.He would later lead South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.