Tutu to Be African Archbishop
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-apartheid campaign, today was elected leader of the Anglican Church for all of southern Africa, including South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho and St. Helena Island.
The announcement came after a daylong meeting of about 500 Anglican clergy and lay people who convened to choose a new archbishop of Cape Town, the highest Anglican position in the region. Archbishop Phillip Russell is retiring in August after five years in the job, and Tutu will take over Sept. 1. Tutu last year became Johannesburg’s first black bishop.
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