Author: ARCH BISHOP

HOMILIES / NEWS

June 18, 2023

God calls Christians to Holiness and Loving Service

God has chosen us to become conduits of grace and hope in the world. We, seated here, are God’s elect, chosen for mission.

HOMILIES / NEWS

June 11, 2023

Real Presence of Christ in the Consecrated Bread and Wine

CORPUS CHRISTI: SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST, YEAR A, ST. AUGUSTINE’S PARISH, SUN CITY, ABUJA. 11.06.2023. HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I. A. KAIGAMA

June 5, 2023

Courtesy visit to the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi

~ Fr. John Ilonah On Monday, June 5, 2023, our Archbishop, His Grace, Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, paid a courtesy visit to the Commandant...

June 4, 2023

HAPPY PENTECOST FROM SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA!

I PRAYED SPECIALLY FOR YOU Today again, I asked God’s blessings upon you all from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where hundreds of pilgrims...

HOMILIES / NEWS

June 4, 2023

The Blessed Trinity: Our Model of Community Life and Love

Holy Trinity Sunday, 4th June 2023, Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Abuja. Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama.

PROFILE

Born in the Nigerian State of Taraba on the 31st July, 1958, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama was ordained a Catholic priest in 1981. In 1995, he became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Jalingo, the capital city of his home State of Taraba. In 2000, he was installed as the Archbishop of Jos, capital of Plateau State and on 11th March 2019, the Holy Father Pope Francis appointed him Coadjutor Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja and he took full possession as Archbishop of Abuja in December 2019. Archbishop Kaigama is the founder of the Dialogue, Reconciliation, and Peace Centre, Jos (2011). He was elected President of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) in 2015 and also served as the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) for six years.

He has held positions as Chair of the Plateau State Inter-Religious Council for Peace and Harmony and Chair of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), in Plateau State for years. He was also a member of the Solomon Lar Presidential Committee mandated by the Federal Government to look into the causes of the Plateau ethno-religious crises and to proffer ways of bringing them to an end. He travels all around the world to speak about peace and share his experience of dialogue/interfaith collaboration and peace-building efforts.

His Grace holds a PhD in spiritual theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and two honourary doctorate degrees in Public Administration and Human Resource Management by Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu (2015) and Madonna University (2016) respectively.

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