Author: ARCH BISHOP

October 16, 2025

BACK TO PASTORAL WORK ON WORLD MISSION SUNDAY

I now share with you news of my two-week break which was a mission in itself and today marks the end of that short break.

HOMILIES / NEWS

September 7, 2025

THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR C, THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF MARY QUEEN OF ALL HEARTS, AT VERITAS UNIVERSITY, ABUJA, 07.09.2025. HOMILY BY MOST REV. IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, ARCHBISHOP OF ABUJA.

HOMILIES / NEWS

August 24, 2025

THE NARROW DOOR THAT DEMANDS EFFORT, HUMILITY, AND SINCERITY OF HEART

21ST SUNDAY, YEAR C, 24TH AUGUST 2025, ST. MARTIN CATHOLIC CHURCH, MABUSHI, ABUJA. HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I. A. KAIGAMA

August 21, 2025

BISHOPS OF ABUJA ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE

Communiqué Issued at the End of Meeting of Catholic Bishops of Abuja Province, held in AKPEGEDE, the New Bishops House, Catholic Diocese of Otukpo, 19-21 August, 2025

HOMILIES / NEWS

August 17, 2025

CHRISTIANS AND THE COURAGE TO SPEAK AND ACT THE TRUTH

HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I. A. KAIGAMA
READINGS: JER 38:4-6.8-10; HEB 12:1-4; LK 12:49-53

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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