World Youth Day Celebrations Around the Globe

Bishop Frank Caggiano accompanied diocesan youth on three World Youth Days. Below from top, Bishop Caggiano leads catechesis for English-speaking pilgrims in Rio de Janeiro, 2013… He bonds with youth after a communal dinner in Madrid, Spain, 2011… He waves to diocesan pilgrims as he processes into Mass in Sydney, Australia, 2008… Bishops Nicholas DiMarzio […]

Family Album Photos

Below, Bishop Frank Caggiano with his mother Gennarina and niece Pasqualina; center, then-Father Caggiano with Bishop Rene Valero, his nephew Dominick and his mother; Bishop Caggiano’s sister, Antonia, has a few words for NET-TV’s Currents during the Douglaston farewell celebration.

Ethnic Celebrations

From top, Bishop Frank Caggiano celebrates with the Irish at the 2011 Irish-American Day Parade in Park Slope; he participates in a Polish liturgy and blesses the congregation with a relic of Blessed John Paul II; and celebrates the Holy Year of St. James with Spanish-speaking members of the Cursillo Movement.         […]

Episcopal Ordination

Bishop Frank Caggiano was ordained an auxiliary bishop on Aug. 22, 2006 along with Auxiliary Bishops Octavio Cisneros and Guy Sansaricq. The ceremony took place at Our Lady of Angels Church, Bay Ridge. At right, Bishop Caggiano is shown speaking that day following the ordination rite. Below, Bishop DiMarzio pours holy oil on the head of […]

Douglaston Farewell

A diocesan farewell to Bishop Frank Caggiano was celebrated Sept. 12 in the chapel at Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, where Bishop Caggiano was ordained a priest. Invited guests included priests, deacons, diocesan officials and religious superiors. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio presented Bishop Caggiano with a replica of the stained-glass window at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn, […]

Bishop Frank Caggiano was the ordaining prelate for the class of permanent deacons that was ordained earlier this year.

The Time Is Now for Bishop Caggiano

by Msgr. Guy Massie According to the Book of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, which is part of the Wisdom Literature in the Hebrew Texts, there is a time for every thing under the heavens. “There is time to be born and a time to die, a time to laugh and a time to cry…” As I listened […]

Colleen Ceriello, executive director of the Rocklyn Asset Corp., which handles the diocese’s real estate affairs, thanks Bishop Caggiano for his assistance over the years.

Bishop Has a Personal Touch to His Ministry

by Antonina Zielinska Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and the employees of the Diocese of Brooklyn came together in eucharistic prayer to formally thank and say goodbye to Bishop Frank Caggiano as he prepares to begin his ministry as the Bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. “It’s not a goodbye, but it’s a farewell till we meet again,” Bishop […]

Earlier this year, Bishop Caggiano helped dedicate the Sister Jean and Sister Miriam Soup Kitchen at Epiphany Church in Williamsburg. Here he is shown applauding as the sisters cut the ribbon. Lending a hand is Deacon Juan Carattini of SS. Peter and Paul parish.

His Leadership Is Based On Building Relationships

by Father William G. Smith First impressions of Bishop Frank Caggiano are remarkably similar. After only a few minutes with him, it is obvious that he is a supremely talented person with almost unlimited energy. These are valuable gifts that can produce much but in and of themselves only reveal the possessor of good management […]

Bishop Frank Caggiano Background

Born: Easter Sunday, March 29, 1959 Parents: Arnaldo and Gennarina Attended: SS. Simon and Jude School, Gravesend; Regis H.S., Manhattan; Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Cathedral College, Douglaston; Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, L.I. Ordained: May 16, 1987 by Bishop Francis J. Mugavero in the Chapel at Cathedral College, Douglaston Parochial Vicar: St. Agatha, Sunset Park, […]

Bishop Caggiano’s Installation

The installation of Bishop Frank Caggiano as bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., will be held at St. Theresa Church in Trumbull, Conn., on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 2 p.m. The evening before, there will be a vespers service at St. Augustine Cathedral, Downtown Bridgeport, at 7:30 p.m., when he will take canonical possession […]