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July 11, 2018

VATICAN CONFERENCE ON IMPACT INVESTING, JULY 2018

Third CRS – Vatican Conference on Impact Investing: Scaling Investment in Service of Integral Development, from 8th to 11th July 2018 drew many speakers from...

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April 23, 2018

AD LIMINA VISIT OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF NIGERIA, 21.04.18

Homily at St. Mary Major Basilica, 21.04.2018, during the Ad Limina Visit of Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of...

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March 29, 2018

HOMILY AT THE CHRISM MASS OF 27.03.2018

Homily at the Chrism Mass of 27.3.2018 at Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral Jos, by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos. This week...

HOMILIES

December 16, 2017

…FOR EVANGELIZATION AND PASTORAL PROGRESS

Homily by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Bomadi, 15th December, 2017. What today is Benin...

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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....

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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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Category: HOMILIES

VATICAN CONFERENCE ON IMPACT INVESTING, JULY 2018

AD LIMINA VISIT OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF NIGERIA, 21.04.18

HOMILY AT THE CHRISM MASS OF 27.03.2018

…FOR EVANGELIZATION AND PASTORAL PROGRESS

GENUINE LEADERSHIP AND PRIESTLY LIFE

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