Author: ARCH BISHOP

September 15, 2024

FRATERNITY TO HEAL THE WORLD

53rd International Eucharistic Congress held in Quito, Ecuador, 8th to 15th September, 2024. It was a moving spiritual event.

September 10, 2024

The 53rd Eucharistic Congress Continues: My experience in Juan Bautista de Cotocollao Parish

I came back late to our lodging because the people were so warm-hearted and wouldn’t let me go easily. God has certainly blessed us with many lovely and warm-hearted people

September 8, 2024

My Journey: 53rd INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS, ECUADOR, SEPTEMBER 2024

This Eucharistic Congress is a golden opportunity for people to come from all over the world, in, with, and through the Eucharist to invoke God for healing upon us and the whole world.

HOMILIES / NEWS

September 1, 2024

Beyond External Rituals

22nd Sunday in ordinary Time, Year B, 1st September 2024, St. Michael Chaplaincy, Maitama. Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama

August 26, 2024

The 2nd plenary meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria

The 2nd plenary meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria is in progress in Auchi, Edo State, from 22nd to 30th August, 2024. A...

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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