After being educated at the Johannesburg Bantu High School, he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and in 1954 he graduated at the University of South Africa. After three years as a High School Teacher he began to study theology, being ordained as a priest in 1960. The years 1962-66 were devoted to further theological study in England leading up to a Master on Theology. From 1967 to 1972 he taught theology in South Africa before returning to England for three years as Assistant Director of a theological institute of London. In 1975 he was appointed Dean of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg, the first black to hold that position. He was Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 to 1978, when he became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. Tutu is an honorary doctor of a number of leading universities in the USA, Britain and Germany.