Mpho Tutu van Furth

Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth (born 1963) is a South African Anglican priest, author and activist.

[4] As a child, Tutu had no desire to follow in her father's footprints as a priest and later described her path to the ministry as taking the "scenic route" and said she felt God calling her into the profession.

[6] She received her master's degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[6] and after her ordination she began preaching at the historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia.

[2][15] On 30 January 2022, Mpho Tutu van Furth was confirmed as pastor of Vrijburg, a church in Amsterdam, by the reverend Joost Röselaers.

[16] In 2015, Tutu married Marceline van Furth [nl], a Dutch professor of medicine, and moved to Amstelveen in the Netherlands.

[4] In September 2022, the Church of England's Diocese of Hereford refused a request to allow her to conduct a funeral in the diocese, that of her godfather and her father's friend the anti-apartheid campaigner Martin Kenyon,[23] because she is married to a woman (the Church of England does not allow its clergy to marry the same sex).

Tutu House was her childhood home in Johannesburg
Tutu with the Dalai Lama at the Vancouver Peace Summit
With her father, Desmond Tutu , in the Netherlands, 2012