Author: graceameh

SPEECHES/PAPERS

October 29, 2016

PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS ON MISSIOLOGY

PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS ON MISSIOLOGY, AT DOMUS FIDEI, IKEJA, LAGOS, 25th to 29th OCTOBER, 2016. AN OPENING ADDRESS BY MOST REV. IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, PRESIDENT, CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE...

October 27, 2016

SOLIDARITY VISIT TO IDPs IN MAIDUGURI

The Catholic Bishops of Jos Province paid a solidarity visit 26th to 27th October, 2016 to the Internally Displaced People in Maiduguri and celebrated Holy...

October 14, 2016

PERPETUAL PROFESSION OF VOWS OF FMDM SISTERS

PERPETUAL PROFESSION OF VOWS OF SR. ELIZABETH KWATA, FMDM, AND JUDITH IGBOJIONU, FMDM, AT ST. MONICA’S PARISH CHURCH, 14.10.2016. HOMILY BY MOST REV. IGNATIUS A....

October 9, 2016

BEHOLD THE “PRELATE OF PEACE”

The Feast Day of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church Jos was celebrated in grand style as the Igbo community seized the opportunity to celebrate Archbishop Ignatius...

DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION AND PEACE (DREP) CENTRE

October 6, 2016

COURTESY CALL ON THE GOVERNOR OF PLATEAU STATE

The peace we enjoy so far is a manifestation of the effort of the government and we are here to consolidate on the government. Our...

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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