Frank Joseph Caggiano
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Frank Joseph Caggiano |
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| Bishop of Bridgeport | |
Portrait of Bishop Caggiano
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| Archdiocese | Hartford |
| Diocese | Bridgeport |
| Appointed | July 31, 2013 |
| Installed | September 19, 2013 |
| Predecessor | William E. Lori |
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| Ordination | May 16, 1987 by Francis John Mugavero |
| Consecration | August 22, 2006 by Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio, Thomas Vose Daily, and Ignatius Anthony Catanello |
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March 29, 1959 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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Styles of Frank Joseph Caggiano |
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| 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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