Category: PASTORAL MESSAGES

April 27, 2018

WHEN WILL THIS BARBARISM END?

A Statement Issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference in the wake of the Murder of Two Priests and their Parishioners During the celebration of the...

PASTORAL MESSAGES

March 15, 2018

MUSINGS OF A PASTOR OF SOULS OVER THE RECENT KILLINGS IN PLATEAU STATE

MUSINGS OF A PASTOR OF SOULS OVER THE RECENT KILLINGS IN DAFFO, MIANGO, DUNDU, DONG, LA’AKE AND RAFIKI OF PLATEAU STATE The cries and anguish of...

PASTORAL MESSAGES

February 23, 2018

A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE FIRST CBCN PLENARY MEETING, FEBRUARY 2018

“…THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY” (JOHN 10:10) A Communiqué issued at the End of the First Plenary Meeting of the...

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February 19, 2018

LETTERS FROM THE VATICAN, 19.02.2018

Click the links below to download and read more letters. Decreto Nomina – Vescovo UGORJI CEP – Letter to Bishop OKPALEKE CEP – Letter to...

PASTORAL MESSAGES

January 17, 2018

ON THE RECURRENT WAVE OF VIOLENCE AND THE CHEAPENING OF HUMAN LIVES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY. A STATEMENT BY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE OF NIGERIA

ON THE RECURRENT WAVE OF VIOLENCE AND THE CHEAPENING OF HUMAN LIVES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY. A STATEMENT BY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE...

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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Category: PASTORAL MESSAGES

WHEN WILL THIS BARBARISM END?

MUSINGS OF A PASTOR OF SOULS OVER THE RECENT KILLINGS IN PLATEAU STATE

A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE FIRST CBCN PLENARY MEETING, FEBRUARY 2018

LETTERS FROM THE VATICAN, 19.02.2018

ON THE RECURRENT WAVE OF VIOLENCE AND THE CHEAPENING OF HUMAN LIVES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY. A STATEMENT BY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONFERENCE OF NIGERIA

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