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August 11, 2019

EID-EL-KABIR

Today, Sunday 11th August , 2019, in the Catholic calendar is the 19th Sunday of the Year in Ordinary Time and our second reading from...

NEWS

July 22, 2019

GOLDEN JUBILEE OF SECAM

A festive celebration of the Holy Mass took place on Sunday 21st July in the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Lubaga, in Kampala, Uganda,...

NEWS / PASTORAL MESSAGES

July 16, 2019

REFLECTIONS/LESSONS FROM THE MAY/JUNE 2019, FULANI/KONA CONFLICT

BY IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, APOSTOLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF JOS AND COADJUTOR ARCHBISHOP OF ABUJA ARCHDIOCESE A Fulani herdsman and a Jukun Kona farmer at Yawai Abbare...

NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

June 4, 2019

COURTESY VISIT TO HIS EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR SIMON BAKO LALONG

A speech by the Apostolic Administrator of Jos Archdiocese and Coadjutor Archbishop of Abuja, Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, during the courtesy visit to His...

NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

May 16, 2019

AN ADDRESS BY MOST REV. IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, PRESIDENT OF RECOWA-CERAO

AT THE 3RD PLENARY ASSEMBLY IN OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO 13TH TO 20TH MAY, 2019 Your Excellency Mr. Marc Kaboré, President of Faso, Your Eminences, The Holy See Chargé d’Affaires in...

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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