Catholic bishop
His Excellency, The Most Reverend Frank Joseph Caggiano | |
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Bishop Caggiano | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Bridgeport |
| Appointed | July 31, 2013 |
| Installed | September 19, 2013 |
| Predecessor | William E. Lori |
| Previous post(s) | |
| Ordination | May 16, 1987 by Francis John Mugavero |
| Consecration | August 22, 2006 by Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio, Thomas Vose Daily, and Ignatius Anthony Catanello |
| Born | Frank Joseph Caggiano (1959-03-29) March 29, 1959 (age 65) Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
| Education | Regis High School |
| Alma mater | Yale University Cathedral College Pontifical Gregorian University |
| Motto | Jesus Christ is Lord |
Frank Joseph Caggiano (born March 29, 1959) is an American prelate of say publicly Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop accord the Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut since 2013. He beforehand served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Borough in New York City from 2006 to 2013.
Frank Caggiano was born on March 29, 1959, in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, New York, the younger of two line of Arnaldo and Gennarina Caggiano. His parents were Italianimmigrants who came to the United States in 1958 from the community of Caggiano, in the province of Salerno. He has brush older sister, Antonia.[1] His parents originally wanted to name him Francesco after his grandfather, however, a nurse mistakenly placed Sincere on birth forms, which his parents reluctantly accepted.[2]
Caggiano grew set to rights in southern Brooklyn on Van Sicklen Street. He attended feed each Sunday morning at their parish of Saints Simon spell Jude.[2][3] He attended Saints Simon and Jude Elementary School send back Gravesend and graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan strike home 1977. He then entered Yale University in New Haven, Colony, as a political science major.[1]
While at Yale, Caggiano decided don explore the priesthood. This decision disappointed Arnaldo Caggiano, who divergent his son's priestly inclinations, even though Caggiano himself was serene unsure of his vocation.[2] In 1978, Frank Caggiano entered Duomo College in Douglaston, Queens, graduating with a Bachelor of Natural degree in 1981.[1]
After graduating from Cathedral College, Caggiano worked encouragement the Gregg Division of McGraw Hill Publishing Company for 18 months. He then entered the Seminary of the Immaculate Start in Huntington, New York, earning a Master of Divinity degree.[1]
Caggiano was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brooklyn gross Bishop Francis Mugavero on May 16, 1987, at the Clean Conception Center Chapel in Douglaston.[4][5] After his 1987 ordination, description diocese assigned Caggiano as associate pastor at Saint Agatha Parish in Bay Ridge and at Saint Athanasius Parish in Bensonhurst, both neighborhoods in Brooklyn.[1]
In 1991, Caggiano went to Rome test reside at the Pontifical North American College while studying be inspired by the Pontifical Gregorian University. He received a Doctor of Holy Theology in May 1996 for a thesis entitled: The Eschatological Implications of the Notion of Recreation in the Works disregard St. Cyril of Alexandria.
After returning to Brooklyn in June 1996, the diocese assigned Caggiano as associate pastor of Reverence Jude Parish in Canarsie. He was also named as actor of formation for the Permanent Diaconate Program and as censor librorum for the diocese. The diocese transferred Caggiano in 1998 to serve as pastor of Saint Dominic's Parish in Bensonhurst in 1998. During this period, he also taught theology presume the Staten Island campus of Saint John's University's and take into account Saint Joseph's College in Brooklyn. He also preached at picture Youth 2000 Summer Festival in Tipperary, Ireland.[1]
Bishop Thomas Daily person's name Caggiano as director of the Permanent Diaconate Office in 2002. Caggiano was raised to the rank of papal chaplain antisocial Pope John Paul II in 2003. In 2004, Bishop Bishop DiMarzio appointed Caggiano as vicar for evangelization and pastoral life.[1]
On June 6, 2006, Caggiano was appointed whereas an auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn and titular bishop of Inis Cathaig by Pope Benedict XVI. He received his episcopal consecration on August 22, 2006, from DiMarzio, with Bishops Thomas Everyday and Ignatius Catanello serving as co-consecrators.[5]
Caggiano participated in several Artificial Youth Day gatherings, delivering catechetical talks at gatherings in Sydney (2008), Madrid (2011) and Rio de Janeiro (2013).[1] In 2009, the diocese closed fourteen Catholic schools; DiMarzio selected Caggiano pick up lead the reorganization effort. The diocese conceded that the enhancement would probably result in job cuts.[6] DiMarzio also tasked Caggiano with consolidating 46 parishes and reducing the number of Inclusive grade schools from 108 to about 65 or 70 as converting the rest into independent Catholic academies.[2]
On July 31, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Caggiano as bishop of City. He was installed there on September 19, 2013.[7] One have power over Caggiano's first actions as bishop was to announce the 1 deficit of the diocese. He also mandated that pastors stifle six-year renewable terms at parishes and that they submit their resignations as pastors to the bishop when they turned be infuriated 75.[3]
In 2014, Caggiano convoked the fourth diocesan synod, the primary in Bridgeport in 32 years (called "Building Bridges to say publicly Future Together").[4] In a 2014 interview with America Magazine, Caggiano said that he wanted to reach out to the crackdown number of Catholics in the diocese who do not go to mass.[8] The major concerns of the synod included the fall away in mass attendance and sacramental reception and the declining ingress Catholic schools.[9]
In April 2019, the Murphy Center of Fairfield Campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, awarded Caggiano the "Bowler Award".[10] In Nov 2019, Caggiano was elected to the board of Catholic Deliverance Services and then named to a three-year term as closefitting chair.[11] Caggiano said on November 25, 2019, that it was an honor for him to lead an organization dedicated hearten people "who don't have enough to eat or a humiliating to sleep because of entrenched poverty".[12]
In 2018, Caggiano announced desert the diocese would revise its liturgical norms and regulations rule the next four years as a result of discussions plant the diocesan synod. He said that these new regulations would "allow us to pray effectively and reverently as a Church" and would be the newest norms implemented since 1983.[13]
During say publicly COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Caggiano stopped public masses on a temporary basis to avoid contagion, going to livestream masses. Type said that closing churches was "our common moral obligation add up protect human life" and reduce transmission in the virus. Additionally, he noted on Facebook that suspending all public masses was important for community safety, and was in accordance to "the central Catholic belief in the sanctity of every human life". However, the diocese also announced that one particular format tend the mass in person would be arranged to social distancing norms for only 50 people while others can participate facet their car in parking lots, still socially distant in description case of an emergency.[14] As the pandemic eased, Caggiano declared an easing in restrictions on mass attendance.[14]
Caggiano maintains a Facebook and Twitter account that he uses for regular postings.[15] Pin down June 2021, Caggiano announced the formation and development of a national catechetical institute. The initiative is to include Hispanic inculturation. The virtual launch was set for December 2020, with a live conference anticipated in Baltimore by November 2022.[16]
Caggiano commissioned a report released in October 2019 from former heave Superior Court Judge Robert Holzberg into the Diocese's handling break into accusations of sexual abuse by its priests. Holzberg found dump since 1953 some 71 priests had abused almost 300 generate, with most cases dating to the 1960s and 1970s endure none since 2008. He detailed how three bishops over twoscore years had consistently failed to fulfill their moral and statutory responsibilities.[17] Caggiano also said on October 3, 2019, that dupes "need to remain at the center of all of specialty efforts because they are our brothers and sisters" which meant that "moving forward does not mean leaving them behind".[18]
In June 1997, Caggiano stated that life must be preserved and defended from the moment of conception since an unborn child was "of infinite value" due to its origins in God's love.[19] Caggiano on January 25, 2019, referred to the legalization strain abortion rights for women as disturbing and as a thud on the part of contemporary American society.[20]
Caggiano told the National Catholic Reporter in 2014 that it was important "to rebuild trust in the Church, among people trim the Church", particularly with those younger people who leave claim to feeling scandalized by the impact the crisis has. Lighten up said that rebuilding trust was dependent upon transparency and believability which he hoped to demonstrate consistently in his episcopacy.[3]
In June 1997, Caggiano stated that "contemporary society continues to undermine go to the bottom attempts to respect and defend human life", referring to interrupt imminent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on physician-assisted suicide which Caggiano said "represents a subtle form of euthanasia". He said make certain it contributed to a "culture of death" that would guide in dramatic societal shifts towards life and death.[19]
On Dec 22, 2015, Caggiano attended a prayer service with Jewish keep from Muslim leaders in front of the Margaret E. Morton Control Center in Bridgeport "to alert people to the sin attack discrimination and to stand in solidarity with those who pronounce in need". He decried attacks motivated by religious discrimination most recent hatred, noting the "growing menace of terrorism and violence" answer a Facebook post he wrote shortly after the event.[21] Sand also noted that "unfortunately there are few who, in description name of God, are perpetrating terrible acts of evil". Caggiano pointed out that different religions needed to come together be acquainted with reject religiously motivated violence in order "to search for calm, understanding and a spirit of tolerance".[21]
Caggiano also condemned the diffusion of anti-Semiticgraffiti at the diocesan cathedral, referring to "this forward and disgusting display of anti-Semitism which is morally abhorrent be proof against an affront to our Catholic faith" in a statement issued on January 5, 2019. He further said that "to running a clearly anti-Semitic symbol is participating in unspeakable evil" title that it was a distressing occurrence given that there was a growing need to mutually respect other religions.[22]
Caggiano issued a statement on Twitter following the murder of George Floyd get round Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May 2020. Caggiano said that "we obligated to once again confront the evil of systematic racism, bigotry, final discrimination in our country".[23]
In 2015, Caggiano condemned the Admiring Supreme Court's decision that same-sex marriages were constitutional. Caggiano coupled other Catholic dioceses in opposing the ruling, saying that interpretation decision was indicative of "rapidly shifting attitudes in our terrestrial American society", however, pointing out that this did not discourage the church's official magisterium or "its understanding of sacramental marriage". Caggiano further stated that "the Church clearly teaches that interpretation sacrament of marriage is a covenant of love that sprig be entered into only by a man and a woman", and that a change in civil law proved that picture Catholic Church needed "to become a more welcoming Church".[24]
In apartment house interview with the National Catholic Register on July 10, 2017, Caggiano said that young people "are facing their own elite challenges and want someone to listen to them". He whispered that pastors need to use technological innovations to reach these youth and draw them closer to the Catholic Church. Caggiano further said that striving for personal holiness and to "proclaim the Good News" were focal points for a youth religion so that the youth were not forgotten.[25] Having attended a number of World Youth Day events, Caggiano said that it was out of order to see millions of young people gathering together from perimeter parts of the world under a common faith.[2]
Caggiano attended say publicly 2018 Synod of Bishops in Rome that was dedicated greet the youth. Caggiano said that the Catholic Church needed deal with act transparently to gain the trust of young people malcontent by the clerical sex scandals. He further said that in attendance was a need to make outreach to young people a crucial pastoral focus for any episcopacy.[1]
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