Welby pays tribute at Archbishop Desmond Tutu funeral

The funeral service for Archbishop Desmond Tutu gets under way in St George’s Cathedral at Cape Town, South Africa (Nic Bothma/Pool/AP)

A funeral service is under way in South Africa for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning equality activist who was revered for his role in ending apartheid.

“When we were in the dark, he brought light,” Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the worldwide Anglican church, said in a video message shown at a Requiem Mass in St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Saturday.