Category: NEWS

October 31, 2021

Love is the supreme Law

1st Sunday, Year B, October 31, 2021, Homily at Sts. Simon and Jude Minor Seminary, Kuje, Abuja, by Archbishop I. A. Kaigama

NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

October 27, 2021

Our Land is Blessed

Launching of the RECOWA “Online Pilgrimage” for Justice, 27th October, 2021, Speech by the President of RECOWA, Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama

HOMILIES / NEWS

October 24, 2021

MISSION SUNDAY

MISSION SUNDAY; THIRTIETH SUNDAY, YEAR B, OCTOBER 24, 2021. HOMILY AT ALL SAINTS PARISH, DUTSE ALHAJI, BY Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama

HOMILIES / NEWS

October 17, 2021

Reflecting on sacrificial leadership with Jesus

TWENTY NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B, OCTOBER 17, 2021, ST. LUKE’S PARISH, KUBWA, HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP I. A. KAIGAMA

NEWS

October 14, 2021

Second part of Archbishop Kaigama activities for the 2021 World Mission Campaign in Germany with the Emir of Wase, Dr. Mohammed Sambo Haruna

We had an important exchange on issues of religious freedom and interfaith dialogue with Mr. Markus Grübel, the Commissioner for Religious Freedom at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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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