Frank Caggiano
Catholic bishop
Frank Joseph Caggiano (born March 29, 1959) is an American Catholic prelate who serves as bishop of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York City from 2006 to 2013.
Biography
Early life
Caggiano was born on March 29, 1959, in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, New York, the younger of two children of Arnaldo and Gennarina Caggiano. His parents were Italian immigrants who came to the United States in 1958 from the town of Caggiano, in the province of Salerno. He has an older sister, Antonia. His parents originally wanted to name him Francesco after his grandfather, however, a nurse mistakenly placed Frank on birth forms, which his parents reluctantly accepted.
Caggiano grew up in southern Brooklyn on Van Sicklen Street. He attended mass each Sunday morning at their parish of Saints Simon and Jude. He attended Saints Simon and Jude Elementary School in Gravesend and graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan in 1977. He then entered Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, as a political science major.
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