Category: PASTORAL MESSAGES

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 / 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 / PASTORAL MESSAGES

January 1, 2019

NEW YEAR WISHES

I wish to see a New Year free of violence, conflict, religious fundamentalism, ethnic tension, political bitterness and rancour. I wish to see priority by...

PASTORAL MESSAGES

September 14, 2018

DO NOT BE AFRAID, DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED” (Deut 31:8)

(An Invitation to Action for National Harmony and Peace) A Communiqué issued at the end of the Second Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference...

PASTORAL MESSAGES

June 30, 2018

PRAYER FOR POLITICAL, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS PEACE IN PLATEAU STATE

Since 2010, a prayer jointly composed for Plateau State by the General Assembly of Priests, Religious and Laity of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos has always been...

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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