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Frank J. Caggiano

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Frank Joseph Caggiano
Bishop of Bridgeport
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Portrait of Bishop Caggiano
Archdiocese Hartford
Diocese Bridgeport
Appointed July 31, 2013
Installed September 19, 2013
Predecessor William E. Lori
Orders
Ordination May 16, 1987
by Francis John Mugavero
Consecration August 22, 2006
by Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio, Thomas Vose Daily, and Ignatius Anthony Catanello
Personal details
Born (1959-03-29) March 29, 1959 (age 58)
Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York
Nationality American
Denomination Roman Catholic Church
Previous post Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn
Motto JESUS CHRIST IS LORD
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Reference style
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Bishop

Frank Joseph Caggiano (born March 29, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Bishop of Bridgeport.

Frank Caggiano was born in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, New York, to Arnaldo and Gennarina Caggiano. His parents were Italian immigrants who came to the United States from the town of Caggiano, in the province of Salerno, in 1958. The younger of two children, he has a sister, Antoniette.

He attended Ss. Simon and Jude Elementary School in Gravesend and graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan in 1977. He then entered Yale University as a political science major, but later decided to enter the priesthood. In 1978, he entered Cathedral College in Douglaston, from where Caggiano obtained a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy summa cum laude in 1981.

After working as a sales representative for the Gregg division of McGraw Hill Publishing Company for 18 months, he studied at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, earning a Master's degree in Divinity.


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