Frank Joseph Caggiano (born March 29, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as the Bishop of Bridgeport in Connecticut since 2013. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York City from 2006 to 2013. Biography Early life Frank 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 from the town of Caggiano, in the province of Salerno, in 1958. 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, Brooklyn, and graduated from Regis High School in Manhattan in 1977. He then entered Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, `as a political science major, but later decided to enter the priesthood. This sudden shift from Yale to the priesthood disappointed Arnaldo Caggiano, who opposed his son's priestly inclinations, even though Caggiano himself was still unsure of his vocation. In 1978, Frank Caggiano entered Cathedral College in Douglaston, Queens, graduating with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1981. Upon graduating from Cathedral College, Caggiano worked for the Gregg Division of McGraw Hill Publishing Company for eighteen months. He then entered the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York, earning a Master of Divinity degree. Priesthood Caggiano was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brooklyn by Bishop Francis Mugavero on May 16, 1987 in Douglaston. After his ordination, Caggiano was appointed as associate pastor at Saint Agatha Parish in Bay Ridge and at Saint Athanasius Church in Bensonhurst, both in Brooklyn, until August 1991. After serving in ministry for a few years, Caggiano studied in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a Doctor of Sacred Theology in May 1996: His thesis was entitled: The Eschatological Implications of the Notion of Recreation in the Works of St. Cyril of Alexandria. While in Rome, Caggiano was assigned to the Pontifical North American College. After returning to Brooklyn in June 1996, Caggiano was assigned