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By Fredrick Nzwili

Religion News Service

The daughter of Nobel laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa has given up her clergy credentials after marrying a Dutch woman.

Mpho Tutu told South African media that because her church did not recognize her wedding, she could no longer serve in the country.

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Tutu said the church had instructed a bishop to revoke her license, which granted her the authority to preside at Communion, officiate at weddings, baptisms and funerals.

“I decided I would give it up to him rather than have him take it, a slightly more dignified option with the same effect,” South Africa’s City Press quoted her as saying in an online news story.

Bishop Tutu and his wife, Leah, attended their daughter’s wedding to academic Marceline Van Furth at a wine estate in Franschoek, near Cape Town.

The two first married in the Netherlands, Ms. Van Furth’s home country, in December. The couple are on a honeymoon on the Indian Ocean island of Bali.