Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020

FILE - In this December 2005 file photo, Rev. Robert Graetz, second from left, and wife, Jeannie, sing along with Gladys Williams, right, on the Cleveland Avenue bus, during the walk of remembrance to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgomery bus boycott, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. He was 92. (Karen S. Doerr/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr., spoke, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped King found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, the family said. He was 98. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

This combination of photos provided by the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province shows Sisters, top row from left, Cynthia Borman, Rose M Feess, and Joan Emily Kaul; middle row from left, Mary Lillia Langreck, Michael Marie Laux, and Ellen Lorenz; and bottom row from left, Dorothy MacIntyre, Mary Alexius Portz, and Mary Elva Wiesner in Elm Grove, Wis. All nine died from COVID-related complications in December 2020. (School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province via AP)

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 file photo, a woman mourns at the coffin of Patriarch Irinej as he lies in repose at the St. Sava Temple in Belgrade, Serbia. Patriarch Irinej died after testing positive for the coronavirus. He was 90. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

FILE - In this March 30, 2016 file photo, Ravi Zacharias, center, speaks during the Society of World Changers induction ceremony at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Zacharias, who built an international ministry that strives to defend Christianity on intellectual grounds, died Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at his home in Atlanta after a brief battle with sarcoma, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries said in a statement. (Jeff Morehead/The Chronicle-Tribune via AP)

FILE - In this March 4, 1983 file photo, Daniel Ortega flanks Pope John Paul II who wags his finger at Culture Minister and priest Ernesto Cardenal during welcoming ceremonies at the airport in Managua, Nicaragua. The Vatican's ambassador to Nicaragua said Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, that Pope Francis has lifted the suspension imposed in 1983 on Cardenal. Pope John Paul II suspended Cardenal from his priestly duties because he had become culture minister in the leftist Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega. Cardenal, a renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and across Latin America, died on Sunday, March 1, 2020, according to his personal assistant, Luz Marina Acosta. He was 95. (Mario Tapia/Barricada via AP)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 file photo, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow addresses Orthodox Jews at MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J, during the Siyum HaShas celebration which marks the completion of the Daf Yomi, or daily reading and study of one page of the 2,711 page book. The cycle takes about 7½ years to finish. Perlow died on April 7, 2020 of complications arising from COVID-19, shortly after urging Orthodox Jews to follow social distancing guidelines. He was 89. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2016 file photo, Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei Golpayegani, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, speaks in his office, in Tehran, Iran. On March 16, 2020, he died as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Hossein Razaqnejad/Mehr News Agency via AP)

FILE - In this March 2, 2016, file photo, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at a news conference announcing his winning of the 2016 Templeton Prize, in London. Sacks, the former chief rabbi in the U.K. who reached beyond the Jewish community with his regular broadcasts on radio, died at 72 on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, according to a statement. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

FILE - In this July 8, 2003, file photo, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaks during an interview at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Do, who became the public face of religious dissent in Vietnam while the communist government kept him in prison or under house arrest for more than 20 years, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020 in Ho Chi Minh City. He was 91. (AP Photos/Richard Vogel)

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 1965 file photo, C.T. Vivian, left, leads a prayer on the courthouse steps in Selma, Ala., after Sheriff James Clark, background with helmet, stopped him at the door with a court order. Vivian led hundreds of demonstrators carrying petitions asking longer voter registration hours. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as head of the organization co-founded by the civil rights icon, died at home in Atlanta of natural causes Friday, July 17, 2020, his friend and business partner Don Rivers confirmed to The Associated Press. Vivian was 95. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

FILE - In this Saturday, April 4, 2020 file photo, pallbearers carry the casket of The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery at the Westview cemetery in Atlanta. Lowery, 98, a veteran civil rights leader, helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination. Lowery led the SCLC for two decades and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the Obama presidency. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool)