Bridgeport Diocese Has New Bishop: Frank J. Caggiano Of Brooklyn

CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant

By BERNARD T. DAVIDOW, bdavidow@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
10:42 a.m. EDT, July 31, 2013

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport finally has a new bishop: Auxiliary Bishop Frank J. Caggiano, 53, of Brooklyn.

He replaces William E. Lori, who left to become archbishop in Baltimore in May 2012.

The diocese has scheduled a 10:30 a.m. press conference at the Catholic Center in Bridgeport to introduce Caggiano.

His Installation Mass is scheduled for Sept. 19, the Hartford Archdiocese said in a press release.

The pope announced Caggiano’s appointment at 6 a.m.

Hartford Archbishop Henry J. Mansell issued a statement welcoming the news.

“With deep appreciation and elation we thank our Holy Father Pope Francis for his appointment of Bishop Frank J. Caggiano as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport (Fairfield County). Bishop Caggiano has established a distinguished record of achievement over the years since his ordination as a priest in 1987 in Brooklyn, New York, and his ordination as an Auxiliary Bishop in Brooklyn in 2006,” Mansell said in a written statement.

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