Holy Hour with Youths. Exhortation by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama at at Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Abuja.
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I invite you to confidently look up to Jesus even in the midst of the social deprivation and negligence which you suffer, for Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
32nd Sunday Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama at Christ the King Parish, Kurudu, Abuja.
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Salvation is not transferable like an inheritance, we have to work out our salvation.
30th Sunday Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama at St. Mary Magdalene Parish, Old Kutunku, Abuja
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We need to create a society that cares about every citizen, where no one is considered useless or second class or outcast.
World Mission Sunday Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama, at St. Gabriel’s Chaplaincy, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja.
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God is sending you and I to proclaim in words and deeds, the Good News of salvation.
28th Sunday Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama, at St. Benedict’s Parish Lokogoma, Abuja.
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In the banquet of life, no one should be excluded on account of colour, race or status.
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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