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NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

February 15, 2020

EXCERPTS FROM THE OPENING ADDRESS AT THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF RECOWA-CERAO

8TH ORDINARY SESSION,Abidjan, February 12-17, 2020, by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, RECOWA President 1. Greetings Gathered for the 8th Ordinary Session of the Standing...

NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

January 21, 2020

MEETING OF ARCHBISHOP IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LAITY, CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF ABUJA

21.1.2020 My dear people of God, Good evening! Thank you for coming here today at my own invitation. I very much appreciate your inspiring presence....

January 6, 2020

ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW ARCHBISHOP FOR THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF JOS

Pope Francis has today, the 6th of January, 2020, announced Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu as the Catholic Archbishop of Jos and the Metropolitan of Jos...

December 28, 2019

ABUJA ARCHBISHOP: We must work on achieving justice for all

The Archbishop of Abuja speaks on the recent Christmas terror attack that left 11 people dead, by the so-called Islamic State, and warns that their...

NEWS / PASTORAL MESSAGES

December 21, 2019

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FOR 2019 BY MOST REV. IGNATIUS A. KAIGAMA, CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF ABUJA

Greetings of peace to my beloved family of the Archdiocese of Abuja and to all people of goodwill, as I mark my first Christmas as...

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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