![]() In January 2004, she was ordained into the priesthood along with three other new priests by her father in a ceremony held at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia. If I didn’t feel a call by God to an ordained ministry then I couldn’t do it.” This is the place that I’ve always sought out. “I’ve always felt that my home is the church. “I’ve had the example of two parents who’ve had very lively ministries of their own,” she said in a news conference after her ordination. In 1999, she entered Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, and in June 2003 at age 39, she was ordained to the transitional diaconate at Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield, Diocese of Western Massachusetts. Her then-husband, Joseph Burris, was a Boston sportswriter. Mpho Tutu van Furth later remained in the United States, working in the nonprofit sector and volunteering in an Episcopal church in Massachusetts, according to a 2004 Washington Post story. At the time, his daughter was studying mechanical engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C., after growing up in apartheid South Africa. As Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, he was a pivotal leader in the campaign to end apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s, for which he received the Nobel Prize. The controversy come as the Church of England is grappling with internal divisions over its traditional stance against same-sex marriage as it prepares for its General Synod in February.ĭesmond Tutu died in December 2021 at 90. “We urgently need to make space for conscience, space for pastoral care and space for love,” Bayes told BBC News. The Church of England’s decision “seemed really churlish and hurtful,” Tutu van Furth told BBC News. Kenyon’s family instead moved the funeral to another nearby location so Tutu van Furth could preside.īishop Paul Bayes, a former bishop of Liverpool who has pushed the Church of England to adopt more progressive and welcoming positions on sexuality, argued that the status quo is not good enough. ![]() Michael and All Angels Church in Wentnor, but the Diocese of Hereford reportedly intervened, saying that Tutu van Furth could attend the funeral but not preside, based on “House of Bishops current guidance on same-sex marriage.” 22 at the funeral of her godfather, Martin Kenyon, a close friend of her father who died this month at 92. Tutu van Furth had been invited to preside Sept. The Episcopal Church and Church of England are two independent member provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Although the United States-based church has long welcomed gay and lesbian clergy and in 2015 approved marriage rites for use by same-sex couples, the Church of England maintains that marriage is only between a man and a woman and requires gay and lesbian clergy to remain celibate. Mpho Tutu van Furth, who now serves as a priest in the Netherlands, was ordained in The Episcopal Church in 2004. The Church of England is facing sharp criticism from supporters of greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church after the daughter of the late-Archbishop Desmond Tutu was barred from presiding at a church funeral in England because she is married to a woman. Mpho Tutu van Furth, daughter of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was told she could not preside at the funeral of a close family friend because of the Church of England’s prohibition on gay and lesbian clergy in non-celibate relationships.
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