Background
Frank Caggiano was born in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, New York, to Arnaldo and Gennarina Caggiano.
Frank Caggiano was born in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, New York, to Arnaldo and Gennarina Caggiano.
Bachelor, Cathedral College, Douglaston, New York, 1981. Master of Divinity, Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, Long Island, 1987. Licentiate of Sacred Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 1993.
STD, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 1996.
He currently serves as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport. The younger of two children, he has a sister, Antoniette. 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. He then studied in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a doctorate in theology in 1996.
His thesis was entitled: The Eschatological Implications of the Notion of Recreation in the Works of Saint Cyril of Alexandria. He became pastor of Saint Dominic Church in Bensonhurst in 1998 and taught theology at Saint John"s University"s Staten Island campus and at Saint Joseph"s College.
He was named director of the Permanent Diaconate Office in 2002 and later Vicar for Evangelization and Pastoral Life in 2004.
He was raised to the rank of Papal Chaplain by Pope John Paul II in 2003. On June 6, 2006, Caggiano was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn and Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig by Pope Benedict XVI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 22 from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, with Bishops Thomas Daily and Ignatius Catanello serving as co-consecrators. On July 31, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Caggiano the Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and he was installed on September 19.