Mpho Tutu
Priest, author and activist
Mpho Tutu is a South African priest, author and activist, and the daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Her books include The Book of Forgiving.
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Born 1963 in London, United Kingdom
About Mpho Tutu
Mpho Tutu (also known as Mpho Tutu van Furth) was born in 1963 and is the daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Leah Tutu. She studied and taught at the College of the Transfiguration in Grahamstown, South Africa, and earned a Master of Divinity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her ordination came in 2003, in the US Episcopal Church, and she later served in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. After moving to the Netherlands in 2015, she served as a priest in Amsterdam. She founded the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage and has served as executive director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. As a writer, she co-wrote Made for Goodness with her father, and she also co-wrote a biography of him.