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October 25, 2023

Letter of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to the People of God

The one- month long Synod in the Vatican City has concluded with Holy Mass presided today by His Holiness, Pope Francis.

NEWS

October 1, 2023

Greetings from Rome with best wishes to my fellow Nigerians as we celebrate our 63rd Independence Anniversary

Greetings from Rome with best wishes to my fellow Nigerians as we celebrate our 63rd Independence Anniversary. Let us continue to fervently pray for better...

HOMILIES / NEWS

September 21, 2023

Fr. Peter Hassan’s Silver Jubilee of Priesthood

Fr Hassan Peter is repeating his “yes” to Jesus: “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you” and he is pledging his continued loyalty to Jesus to feed His lambs.

HOMILIES / NEWS

September 17, 2023

The grace of forgiveness

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 17th September, 2023, Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, Abuja. Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama.

NEWS / PASTORAL MESSAGES

September 14, 2023

RELIGION, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND THE BUILDING OF A BETTER NIGERIA

A Communiqué issued at the end of the Second Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) at Chida International Hotel, Utako District, Abuja, 7 to 15 September 2023

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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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