Author: ARCH BISHOP

July 5, 2024

Government should support and, concretely recognize the significant and tremendous role played by the Catholic Church in formation of citizens through schools

PASTORAL VISIT TO CHRIST THE KING COLLEGE (CKC) GWAGWALADA, FTC.

HOMILIES / NEWS

June 30, 2024

In His Love and Providence God does not abandon us

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B; 30TH JUNE, 2024 at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Sabon Lugbe. Homily by Archbishop I.A.Kaigama.

June 29, 2024

Mass with the indigenous people of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE FCT, 29TH JUNE, 2024.

NEWS / PASTORAL MESSAGES

June 26, 2024

Pastoral Statement of the Catholic Bishops of Abuja Ecclesiastical Province at St William’s Cathedral, Lafia, Nasarawa State on 26th June, 2024

We encourage politicians to return to the grass root so as to identify with the plight of the electorate.

HOMILIES / NEWS

June 16, 2024

A call to nurture the seed of faith planted in us for the Kingdom of God

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, 16th June, 2024, Rome. A reflection 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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