Trevor Huddleston

Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston CR & KCMG, ( born June 23, 1913 in Bedford, UK, † April 20, 1998 in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) was a British Anglican archbishop and fighter against apartheid in South Africa.

Life

Trevor Huddlestons father Sir Ernest Huddleston was Director of the Royal Indian Navy. Huddleston attended as a student Lancing College, Lancing; later he attended Christ Church College in Oxford. He spent part of his vacation with hop pickers in Kent. So he began to be interested in missionary work. He studied theology at Wells Theological College in Wells. In 1937 he was ordained a priest in 1939, he joined the Anglican religious community of the Resurrection ( CR, German: " Community of the Resurrection " ) a.

In 1943 he moved to Johannesburg in South Africa. He went there his service as head of the mission station of CR in Rosettenville in the Sophiatown district of.

In the next 13 years Huddleston became a popular priest. In 1949 he became superintendent of the St. Peter's School, which was called the "Black Eton of South Africa" ​​. He was known as a tireless activist against apartheid. So he came to his nickname Makhalipile ( German: " The Fearless "). In particular, at the beginning of the violent eviction of Sophiatown, Huddleston made ​​nonviolent resistance. In 1955 he was awarded the honorary title Isitwalandwe ( German as: " The feather decoration of a rare bird bears " ) from the African National Congress ( ANC) in the People's Congress in Kliptown awarded the highest honor awarded by the ANC. Huddleston was with Albert Luthuli and Yusuf Dadoo the first recipient of this title.

In 1956, Huddleston was banned by the South African government. They called him then back to England. In the same year his most famous book, Naught for Your Comfort appeared ( German as: " Not for your convenience ", German edition as wines, you beloved country, South Africa. ), In which he denounces the system of apartheid passionate. He worked a few years from now at the headquarters of the Order in Mirfield and was committed to continue against apartheid. In 1959 he was one of the initiators of an international economic boycott of the apartheid regime. In 1960 he was appointed Bishop of Masasi in Tanzania today. Eight years later he became Suffragan Bishop of Stepney in the Diocese of London. In 1978 he was appointed Bishop of Mauritius and finally to the Archbishop of the " Province of the Indian Ocean ".

1981 Huddleston became president of the British anti -apartheid movement. In 1983, he resigned as Archbishop and returned to England. From then on he devoted himself again primarily the struggle against apartheid.

Huddleston died in 1998 at the headquarters of the Order in Mirfield.

Honors

  • The ANC gave Huddleston in 1955 the honorary title Isitwalandwe.
  • 1982 Huddleston received the Gold Medal of the United Nations.
  • Huddleston the second highest level of the British Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1997 received.
  • In Sophiatown the Trevor Huddleston CR Memorial Centre is named after him.

Quotes about Trevor Huddleston

  • The former South African president, Nelson Mandela, said of Huddleston: " No White has done more for South Africa than Trevor Huddleston ."
  • "Father Huddleston was a pillar of wisdom, humility and sacrifice for the legions of freedom fighters in the darkest moments of the struggle against apartheid. " ( Nelson Mandela in his obituary of Huddleston )
  • "If you should say, what man has made, as an individual apartheid on the topic for the whole world, then this was Trevor Huddleston. " ( Desmond Tutu, South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in his obituary of Huddleston )

Others

Huddlestons most famous book, Naught for Your Comfort, called in the German translation wines, you beloved country. South Africa. However, this is the approximate literal translation of the title of 1948 published novel Cry the Beloved Country Alan Stewart Paton of South African. Whose book is called in the German edition, because they shall be comforted.

Works by Trevor Huddleston

  • Naught for Your Comfort. William Collins Sons, Glasgow 1956 German as: wine, you beloved country. South Africa. Kaiser, Munich 1959

Film about Trevor Huddleston

1989: Makhalipile: The Dauntless One ( documentary about Huddlestons struggle against apartheid )

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