Author: ARCH BISHOP

SPEECHES/PAPERS

December 8, 2017

VUNA CONVOCATION/ANNIVERSARY 2017

AN ADDRESS BY THE VISITOR TO VERITAS UNIVERSITY, ABUJA (THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA), MOST REV. IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, ARCHBISHOP OF JOS AND PRESIDENT, CATHOLIC...

November 26, 2017

MAIDUGURI DIOCESE AT 50: THE TESTIMONY OF AN INCREDIBLY RESILIENT AND VIBRANT FAITH

24-11-17: Catholic Bishops of Nigeria were in Maiduguri to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the creation of Maiduguri Diocese. The Jubilee celebration was a great...

November 15, 2017

RECOWA HOLDS PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL MEETING IN JOS

The Presidential Council meeting of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) was held in Jos Plateau State, Nigeria, from 8th to 10th November,...

November 13, 2017

GENUINE LEADERSHIP AND PRIESTLY LIFE

A sermon during the priestly ordination of Anthony Dazieng Pwajok Joseph Dung Pwol, Peter Zakka Daluk, at St. William’s Parish Zawan (Challang), by Most Rev....

October 26, 2017

PASTORAL VISIT TO BASSA: A CALL FOR PEACE, FORGIVENESS & RECONCILIATION

By Rev. Fr Alex Dung In his quest for lasting peace on the Plateau, the Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, utilized the...

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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