One New Orleans middle school was named after a church leader who made history as the first Black bishop in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Bishop Harold Perry.

A member of the Treme Brass Band plays during a concert marking the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Concert at the historically black St. Augustine Catholic Church in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He spoke to the crowd in Italian and Spanish, but not English. The last pope to take the name Leo was Leo XIII, an Italian who led the church from 1878 to 1903.