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HOMILIES / NEWS

May 31, 2020

PENTECOST, 31.05.2020, HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I. A. KAIGAMA, AT THE CHURCH OF ASSUMPTION ASOKORO, ABUJA

Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12: 3b-7, 12-13; Jn 20:19-23 This is a very great Day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad....

May 28, 2020

ALHAJI DONATES BIBLES TO ARCHBISHOP KAIGAMA

Alhaji Idi Mohammed Farouk, a muslim, happily married for 35 years to a Catholic, Mrs Anne, visited the Archbishop on the 28th of May, 2020,...

May 25, 2020

BEYOND COVID-19 BOUNDARIES

Czech’s Ambassador pays courtesy visit to Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Nigeria, His Excellency, Mr. Marek Skolil,...

April 25, 2020

ARCHBISHOP KAIGAMA DISTRIBUTES PALLIATIVES TO VULNERABLE NIGERIANS

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, Ignatius Kaigama, has distributed the first phase of a multi-million Naira palliatives for vulnerable Nigerians to cushion effects...

April 23, 2020

GOODWILL MESSAGE FROM ROME

on the occasion of the Episcopal Silver Jubilee of His Grace, Most Rev. Dr Ignatius Kaigama, 23-04-2020.

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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