Category: NEWS

April 3, 2020

THANK YOU MOST SINCERELY CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF JOS!!!

As I celebrated Mass this morning in Jos, 3rd April, 2020 and thanked God for all those who helped me in my pastoral ministry, I...

NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

March 31, 2020

INSTALLATION OF MOST REV. MATTHEW ISHAYA AUDU AS THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF JOS. WELCOME AND VALEDICTORY REMARKS BY ARCHBISHOP IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, 31.03.2020.

My dear brothers and sisters, please allow me to use my remaining last few minutes as a member of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos to...

DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION AND PEACE (DREP) CENTRE / NEWS

March 12, 2020

A VALEDICTORY SESSION ORGANIZED BY THE DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION AND PEACE CENTRE, JOS, IN HONOUR OF ITS FOUNDER, MOST. REV. IGNATIUS KAIGAMA

…and to welcome the Archbishop elect, Most Rev. Mathew Ishaya Audu on March 12, 2020. Present at the occasion were Traditional rulers, Religious leaders, Ethnic/Community...

NEWS

March 9, 2020

COURTESY VISIT OF THE AMBASSADOR OF HUNGARY TO NIGERIA, DR. SÁNDOR BEER, TO ARCHBISHOP KAIGAMA

in Abuja on 9th March, 2020

NEWS

March 8, 2020

THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) EPIDEMIC

The sudden outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic can be likened to a raging fire with a very vicious and destructive force or a roaring lion...

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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