Category: NEWS

January 15, 2023

Jesus, the Lamb of God: OUR HEALER AND CONSOLER

SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A, 15.01.2023, OUR LADY QUEEN OF NIGERIA PRO-CATHEDRAL, ABUJA. HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I.A.KAIGAMA.

NEWS / PASTORAL MESSAGES

January 14, 2023

Prayer for Free, Fair and Peaceful Elections in Nigeria

All-powerful and Benevolent God,
Without You, we cannot succeed,
Left to our own devices, we cannot progress.

HOMILIES / NEWS

January 13, 2023

Diaconate Ordination: These Deacons will be helpers

Diaconate Ordination, at Christ the King Church Kubwa, Abuja, 13th January, 2023. Homily by Archbishop I.A. Kaigama

HOMILIES / NEWS

January 5, 2023

Mass of Funeral for Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, at Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral

We in Africa know that Pope Benedict XVI gave our continent a special consideration, with his visits to, all aimed at fostering evangelization, dialogue, reconciliation, solidarity, justice and peace in Africa.

NEWS / PASTORAL MESSAGES

January 1, 2023

New Year Message, 2023: “In happy moments praise God, in difficult moments seek God, in quite moments worship God, in painful moments trust God and in every moment thank God.”

New Year Message, 2023, by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of Abuja

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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