Category: NEWS

March 22, 2019

Press Conference on the Appointment of a Coadjutor Archbishop for the Archdiocese of Abuja

The Holy Father, Pope Francis on 11 March, 2019, appointed me, Most Rev. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, as the Coadjutor Archbishop of Abuja Archdiocese. At the...

NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

March 2, 2019

INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: A New Era for Advocacy in Response to a New Age Of Challenges and Threats

Remarks at the United Nations Headquarters, New York on 1st March 2019 INTRODUCTION I thank the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations...

NEWS

February 16, 2019

7TH MEETING OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF RECOWA

From 12th to 15th February, 2019, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, the 7th Meeting held of the Standing Committee of RECOWA (Reunion of Episcopal Conferences of...

INTERVIEWS / NEWS

February 15, 2019

“I HOPE FOR FAIR, PEACEFUL AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS”

Nigerians will be going to the polls on 16th February and 2nd March 2019 to elect a President, Federal Parliament and other representatives. Parts...

NEWS

February 7, 2019

FORGIVENESS AS A VITAL PRE-CONDITION FOR PEACE

The Interfaith Mediation Centre (IMC) is a faith-based, non-profit, humanitarian organization co-founded in Nigeria in 1995 by Pastor Dr. James Movel Wuye and Imam...

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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