Francis John Mugavero (pronounced Ma-GUV-a-ro) was born on June 8, 1914 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and grew up over his father's barber shop.
In 1965 he was Master of Ceremonies at the Vatican Pavilion of the New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows during the visit of Pope Paul VI. (Brooklyn and Queens form the diocese of Brooklyn, thus that was the diocese where the World's Fair site was located.) .