Pictures: Life and times of South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu

A couple stands by a picture of the late South African Nobel Peace Price Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the wake of his death outside St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town on December 26, 2021. South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, described as the country's moral compass, died on December 26, 2021, aged 90, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaign of non-violent opposition to South Africa's white minority rule. Above, archbishop Desmond Tutu during his enthronement service at St. Georges Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa, Sept. 7, 1986.

In this file photo taken on May 30, 1985, French Minister of National Education (L) Jean-Pierre Chevenement shakes hands with the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Mother Teresa (C) during an International colloquy called "Liberties and Human rights" at the Hotel de Lassay in Paris, May 30 1985. Standing at the right are French Minister of Culture Jack Lang (2ndR) and Mgr Desmond Tutu, the South-African Anglican bishop (R).

Nobel Peace Price winners Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Archbishop Desmond Tutu meet before lunch in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 10, 1988. Mother Teresa was in Cape Town to open a House of Charity in a black township.

Desmond Tutu tries to calm thousand of supporters of Haitian presidential candidate Rene Preval as they try to get into the Montana Hotel, where the Provisional Electoral Center cancelled a press conference to announce polling results in Port-au-Prince, February 13, 2006.

Retiring Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, right, greets President Nelson Mandela at a service in Cape Town, Sunday June 23, 1996 held to celebrate the end of Tutu's tenure as leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa.

South African activist and Nobel Peace Prize and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu greets residents of Phola park squatter camp, during his visit in Tokoza on August 23, 1990.

Desmond Tutu waves during a speech to a crowd of demonstrators, on Jan. 8, 1986, outside the South African Embassy in Washington.

Desmond Tutu receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Prize from Coretta Scott King, left, and Christine King Farris, King's sister, center, during an ecumenical service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was pastor in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 20, 1986. Tutu's daughter Mpho, right, looks on during the ceremony.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu poses with his wife Leah after he was announced as Nobel Peace Prize recipient on October 23, 1984.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu shares a joke with the Dalai Lama.

This file photo, taken on July 18, 2007, shows South African Bishop Desmond Tutu crying after British musician Peter Gabriel sang "Biko" during the launching ceremony by former South African President Nelson Mandela of the group known as The Elders Johannesburg.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, right, leading the way for Nelson and Winnie Mandela into the garden at his Cape Town residence Monday, Feb. 12, 1990.

Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, holding her son Archie, meets Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa, September 25, 2019.

Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa gestures during the opening concert for the soccer World Cup at Orlando stadium in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, June 10, 2010.

Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa displays an "End Apartheid" T-shirt at New York's City Hall, May 27, 1986.

Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu (center) jogs along a whites only beach at the Strand, Saturday Sept. 30, 1989 with a crowd of supporters near Cape Town, as church organizations continued their campaign of defiance against Apartheid laws.

Former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (R) meets with Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the United Nations on September 24, 2007.

Former Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu is greeted by well-wishers as he arrives home after two years teaching at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia August 17, 2000.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu gestures as he delivers a speech during a conference for "One Young World", the World's largest gathering of Young Leaders, in London on February 08, 2010.