Tutu ordains daughter.Alexandria, Va. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu Noun 1. Desmond Tutu - South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931) Tutu , who won the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. for his fight against racial discrimination in South Africa, ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. his daughter, Mpho, as an Anglican priest Jan. 17 in Christ Church, a historic Episcopal church near Washington, D.C. Ms. Tutu, 40, told reporters before the ordination that she resisted the idea of becoming a priest for many years, but the idea grew stronger. Afterwards, she said, "It would have been an awesome moment regardless of who was the celebrant, but it was something particularly special, particularly wonderful to have my father there presiding at my ordinance." Archbishop Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for opposing the apartheid system in his native country. Speaking with reporters after the service, he said that political activism is still essential. "There is so much we need to say to the world. People care about peace," he said. Ms. Tutu earned a masters degree in divinity from the Episcopal Divinity School Episcopal Divinity School, or EDS, is an Episcopal seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offering Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Theological Studies, and Doctor of Ministry degrees. in Cambridge, Mass. She and her husband, a sportswriter sports·writ·er n. A person who writes about sports, especially for a newspaper or magazine. sports for the Boston Globe, have one daughter. Both George Washington and Robert E. Lee have been among the worshippers at Christ Church in Alexandria. |
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