Category: NEWS

June 26, 2022

Called to True Discipleship

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY, YEAR C, ST. LOUIS COLLEGE, OLD KUTUNKU, GWAGWALADA, ABUJA, JUNE 26, 2022. HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I. A. KAIGAMA

HOMILIES / NEWS

June 19, 2022

Becoming the Eucharist We Celebrate

Corpus Christi/Abuja Archdiocesan Eucharistic Congress, June 19, 2022, at St. Aloysius Parish, Mpape. Homily by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama

NEWS

June 17, 2022

Courtesy Visit to the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi

17 June 2022. The Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi, received a courtesy visit from the Archbishop of Abuja,...

NEWS

June 15, 2022

The flag-off ceremony of the 2022 Easter pilgrimage to the Holy Land

The flag-off ceremony of the 2021 main pilgrimage and 2022 Easter pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Israel and Jordan

HOMILIES / NEWS

June 12, 2022

Mutual love and unity between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, Year C, St. Augustine’s Parish, Dutse-Sangbagyi, June 12, 2022. 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