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Upon entering Our Lady of Victory School in Tyrone for his inaugural tour, Archbishop Gregory is welcomed by a group of fourth through sixth-graders playing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” on recorders, May 17, 2005. School music director Sharon Jones leads the student musicians . (Photo by Michael Alexander)

On Catholic Day at the state Capitol, Archbishop Gregory, background center, serves as chaplain of the day during the opening session of the Georgia House of Representatives, Feb. 27, 2007. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., purchases a souvenir from a Palestinian peddler in Bethlehem Jan. 13, 2004. Bishop Gregory, then president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was among a group of prelates from Europe and North America attending a conference in the Holy Land in mid-January. On their agenda was discussion of the social situation of the Palestinian people. (CNS photo by Debbie Hill)

Bishop Wilton D. Gregory speaks at the Mass installing him as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., on Feb. 10, 1994. (Photo provided by The Messenger/Diocese of Belleville)

Children and adults of diverse backgrounds from within the community welcome Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory as the sixth archbishop of Atlanta during his Jan. 17, 2005, rite of canonical installation. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

Archbishop Gregory participates in the annual Good Friday Urban Stations pilgrimage in downtown Atlanta, April 2007. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory greets Boy Scout Nicholas Eberhart, 13, of St. John Neumann Church, Lilburn, during a 2005 scouting Mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Atlanta. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

(Above) Transitional Deacon Wilton Gregory, right, is shown with Franciscan Father Agnellus Andrew in 1972 at the National Institute for Religious Communications, Loyola University of the South, New Orleans. (Photo provided by The Messenger/Diocese of Belleville)

Wilton D. Gregory shown in undated childhood photo. (Photo provided by The Messenger/Diocese of Belleville)

Bishop Wilton D. Gregory works on an early laptop computer. (Photo provided by The Messenger/Diocese of Belleville)

Archbishop Gregory washes the feet of Cathedral of Christ the King first communicants as he presides over his first Holy Thursday service at the Cathedral, March 24, 2005. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

Archbishop Gregory participates in the 2006 Life Chain along Peachtree Road. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

During a 2005 Catholic-Jewish evening of dialogue and sacred music at The Temple, Atlanta, Archbishop Gregory, second from right, joins (l-r) Kent Alexander, Temple Board of Trustees, Rabbi Ron Segal, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, and Msgr. Henry Gracz, pastor of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (Photo by Michael Alexander)

Pope Benedict XVI greets Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta after bestowing the pallium on the archbishop during a Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2005. (CNS photo from Catholic Press Photo)