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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (OSV News) — After witnessing her son vested in episcopal garb, Barbara Caggianelli began to cry happy tears as she said, “Thank you God.”
The emotional moment was one of many for a local priest described as a wonderful son, great preacher and man of God with a deep sense of prayer, who was ordained as a bishop to serve the U.S. armed forces.
For three decades, Father Gregg M. Caggianelli had served in the military as a chaplain and active reservist, earning the rank of colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
On May 9 he became the first U.S. bishop ordained after the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV.
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The emotional moment was one of many for a local priest described as a wonderful son, great preacher and man of God with a deep sense of prayer, who was ordained as a bishop to serve the U.S. armed forces.
For three decades, Father Gregg M. Caggianelli had served in the military as a chaplain and active reservist, earning the rank of colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
On May 9 he became the first U.S. bishop ordained after the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV.
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Longtime Air Force chaplain and active reservist ordained a bishop to serve U.S. armed forces
Father Gregg Caggianelli, who served in the military as a chaplain and active reservist, is ordained bishop to serve the U.S. armed forces.
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