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July 30, 2016

AT WORLD YOUTH DAY 2016 IN KRAKOW

July 25, 2016

AT SECAM’S 17TH PLENARY ASSEMBLY

His Eminence, Souraphiel Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew, Archbishop of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Archbishop Kaigama at the 17th plenary Assembly of the Symposium of the Episcopal...

NEWS

June 22, 2016

AT THE VATICAN

Meeting in the office of the Secretary of State in the Vatican City: His Eminence, Pietro Cardinal Parolin (Secretary of State of the Holy See),...

NEWS

June 18, 2016

3 PRIESTS ORDAINED AT ST. JOSEPH’S VOM

Two deacons of the Society of African Mission, SMA, and one Servant of Charity SC, were raised to the Order of Priesthood on Saturday June...

SPEECHES/PAPERS

June 16, 2016

CELEBRATING OKOJIE @ 80

80th BIRTHDAY AND GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE PRIESTLY ORDINATION OF HIS EMINENCE, ANTHONY CARDINAL OLUBUNMI OKOGIE, THE EMERITUS ARCHBISHOP OF LAGOS. A SPEECH AT THE END...

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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