George H. Niederauer

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FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2009, file photo, Archbishop George H. Niederauer, left, and Chicago Cardinal Francis George, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, share a laugh after a news conference in Baltimore. Niederauer, San Francisco's eighth archbishop and a leading proponent of a contentious 2008 California ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage died Tuesday, May 2, 2017, of lung cancer at a San Rafael, California care facility. He was 80. ( (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)