Author: ARCH BISHOP

June 6, 2017

IN ROME

Kneeling in prayer at the tomb of St. Paul in the Basilica of St. Paul, Outside-the-Walls in Rome, on the occasion of my 36th priestly...

FEMALE CATECHISTS' FORMATION CENTRE / NEWS

June 1, 2017

FCFC GRADUATES SEVEN

The Female Catechists Formation Centre in Kwall, Plateau State yesterday, 31 May 2017, graduated another set of female Catechists with a charge to preach the good...

May 28, 2017

WORLD COMMUNICATION DAY 2017

This year’s World Communication Day was marked alongside a pastoral visit to St. Gabriel’s Catholic Chaplaincy, Airforce Base, Jos on May 28 2017. At the...

January 14, 2017

Albert D C

May the almighty father continue to be with u in his vineyard.Wish you many years in the vineyard of the Lord. My Lord

Demerde Louis Ada Baboussou

January 13, 2017

Demerde Louis Ada Baboussou

I thank God Almighty for the gift of this great opportunity to read this article of Rv Fr Ignatius Kaigama the Archbishop of Jos Plateau...

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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