Category: NEWS

May 4, 2025

EASTER JOY AND OUR JOURNEYING WITH MARY

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER (YEAR C)/BEGINNING OF THE MARIATHON FOR 2025, AT OUR LADY QUEEN OF NIGERIA PRO-CATHEDRAL, 04.05.2025. HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I.A. KAIGAMA.

NEWS

April 25, 2025

Holy Mass for the eternal repose of the soul of His Holiness, Pope Francis

Pope Francis has gone before us marked with the sign of a very great faith, but he left us legacies of radical love, mercy, forgiveness, hope, justice

NEWS

April 20, 2025

The Holy Week

Holy Week which began with the Palm Sunday (Passion Sunday) culminates with the celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection on Easter Sunday.

HOMILIES / NEWS

April 15, 2025

LORD, HEAL YOUR PRIESTS AND PEOPLE

CHRISM MASS YEAR C, AT OUR LADY QUEEN OF NIGERIA, ABUJA, 15TH APRIL, 2025. HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I.A. KAIGAMA.

HOMILIES / NEWS

April 13, 2025

The King who chooses the Cross as His throne

PALM/PASSION SUNDAY, 13TH APRIL, 2025, OUR LADY QUEEN OF NIGERIA PRO-CATHEDRAL, ABUJA. HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I. A. KAIGAMA.

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.

To read more, go to PROFILE