Congratulations to Monsignor Michael Cariglio, who retired from active ministry earlier this year on July 1.
A native of Ravenna, Monsignor Cariglio was born in 1944 and attended Immaculate Conception School, before entering St. Gregory Seminary High School in Cincinnati, where he completed high school and college. He went on to Mt. St. Mary of the West Seminary in Cincinatti, where he earned a master’s degree in philosophy before pursuing further education at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned a licentiate in theology.
Monsignor Cariglio was ordained on December 18, 1970, in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, by Bishop James Hickey, who was rector of the North American College there. Following his return to the diocese in 1971, Monsignor Cariglio served as associate pastor at St. Patrick Parish in Kent, then taught on the faculty of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Lousiville, beginning in May 1972. He also served as chaplain at the neighboring St. Joseph Hospice there. He joined the theology department of Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown in 1974. He was then assigned in 1976 as an administrative assistant in pastoral ministry at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, while pursuing a master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
In July 1978, he was named to the diocesan tribunal. He also studied canon law at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., earning a licentiate in canon law in 1980. He was appointed vice officialis of the tribunal in June of 1980, while living in the rectory at St. Columba Cathedral. In July of 1986, he was named administrator of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Youngstown and became pastor there one year later. During this time, in 1997, he was named a Chaplain of His Holiness and given the title “Monsignor.” In 2011, he assumed the additional responsibility of administrator at St. Anthony of Padua in Youngstown. The following year, he became pastor of the newly merged Basilica of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel – St. Anthony of Padua Parish. In 2014, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church was designated a minor basilica by the Vatican, and Monsignor Cariglio was given the title of rector.
Monsignor Carliglio was named judicial vicar for the diocese and director of the diocesan Department of Canonical Services and the Office of Conciliation in July 2003. He was reappointed judicial vicar in 2008. In 2015, he was appointed to fire-year terms as judge for the tribunal, defender of the bond, and as episcopal delgate for documentary cases. In 2020, he was appointed adjutant judicial vicar.
Other special assignments have included serving as the diocesan director of pilgrimages, service on the diocesan Council of Priests, a member of the Theologians Committee for Synod ’76, a member of the College of Consultors and a member of the Presbyteral Council for the diocese. He also taught at Walsh University and Youngstown State University.
Monsignor Cariglio also served as judge-delegate for the special diocesan ad hoc tribunal that, from 2007 to 2009, examined the healing of then-five-year old Jacob Sebest from prolonged drowning in Youngstown in 2003. The healing was recognized as a miracle by the Vatican Congregation of the Causes of Saints, recommending the beatification of Mother Casini. She was beatified in 2005. Monsignor Cariglio alsoo served as episcopal delegate, as the diocesan tribunal investigated the cause for sainthood of Rhoda Wise, a Canton woman noted for mysticism, spiritual gifts and healing. The diocese formally proposed her for canonization in 2016.
Send your congratulations to Monsignor Cariglio at: 50 Warner Rd, Hubbard, Ohio 44425.
