the school system of the archdiocese. Schulte served as the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Education, helping to write and research a document on the role local bishops and archbishops should play in Catholic universities within their jurisdictions. In 1992, he created the archdiocese's first formal process for dealing with complaints of sexual abuse by priests or other church employees. In addition to Schulte's duties in the archdiocese, in 1992 he also took on the leadership of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre for the Southeastern United States, being named the grand prior of that region. Retirement On January 3, 2002. John Paul II accepted Schulte's resignation as archbishop of New Orleans. After being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005, his doctors suggested he move to Philadelphia for treatment as New Orleans was dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After spending time in a nursing home in Philadelphia, Francis Schulte died there on January 17, 2016,at age 89. His remains were interred in the crypt of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, King of France in New Orleans. References 1926 births 2016 deaths Clergy from Philadelphia St. Joseph's Preparatory School alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Roman Catholic bishops of Wheeling–Charleston Roman Catholic archbishops of New Orleans 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States Grand Priors of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre Deaths from prostate cancer Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania Burials at St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans)