Father Robert L. Marciano
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Robert L. Marciano graduated from Bishop Hendricken High School
in 1973 and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy
from Providence College while attending Our Lady of Providence
Seminary and graduating in 1979. He then obtained a Masters
in Divinity Degree from St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts
in 1983. Reverend Marciano was ordained to the priesthood on
December 10, 1983 and has been assigned to parochial duties
as assistant pastor St. Joseph, Woonsocket, St. Joan, Cumberland,
and St. Kevin, Warwick and was named Pastor of the combined
Saints Rose and Clement Parish.
Reverend Marciano has served as a member of the Bishop Hendricken Board of Directors and was a recipient of the Hendricken Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998.
He was Chaplain and Captain of the Rhode Island Air National Guard, 143rd Airlift Wing at Quonset Point, Chaplain of the Warwick Police and Fire Departments and the Rhode Island Police Chiefs' Association, and Chaplain of the Providence County Sheriff's Department with the rank of Commander and recipient of the "Sheriff's Star for Meritorious Service."
In 2004, Father Marciano was named Chaplain of the Year for the Air National Guard.
In 2007 he was awarded the Silver Beaver award by the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America for distinguished service to youth.
In July 2006, he left Warwick to join the National Guard Bureau, serving as Chief of Air National Guard Chaplain Corps. In 2009 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel, the first RI Air National Guard Chaplain to achieve this rank.
After completing a four-year active duty tour with the National Guard Bureau and the Pentagon in Washington, DC he returned to Rhode Island in 2010. Father Marciano has been appointed as the Joint Force Headquarters Chaplain and the RI National Guard Command Chaplain effective June 1, 2010.
Father Robert L. Marciano was appointed by Bishop Thomas Tobin to be Pastor of Our Lady of Good Help Parish in Mapleville, while also serving as Catholic Chaplain at Bryant University in Smithfield effective July 1, 2010.
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