Category: HOMILIES

October 23, 2018

EXCERPTS FROM THE HOMILY

EXCERPTS FROM THE HOMILY BY ARCHBISHOP KAIGAMA DURING THE SILVER JUBILEE MASS OF THE RELIGIOUS PROFESSION OF SR. CHRISTIANA THOMAS HALIRU, FMDM, AND SR. ROGITA...

HOMILIES

July 11, 2018

VATICAN CONFERENCE ON IMPACT INVESTING, JULY 2018

Third CRS – Vatican Conference on Impact Investing: Scaling Investment in Service of Integral Development, from 8th to 11th July 2018 drew many speakers from...

HOMILIES

April 23, 2018

AD LIMINA VISIT OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF NIGERIA, 21.04.18

Homily at St. Mary Major Basilica, 21.04.2018, during the Ad Limina Visit of Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of...

HOMILIES

March 29, 2018

HOMILY AT THE CHRISM MASS OF 27.03.2018

Homily at the Chrism Mass of 27.3.2018 at Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral Jos, by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos. This week...

HOMILIES

December 16, 2017

…FOR EVANGELIZATION AND PASTORAL PROGRESS

Homily by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Bomadi, 15th December, 2017. What today is Benin...

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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, 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. He 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 Ghana 2015 and was 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. 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 has been invited to Europe, America and parts of Africa to share his understanding of interfaith collaboration and peaceful coexistence and also to explain the situation of the Church and the Nigerian nation.

He 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: HOMILIES

EXCERPTS FROM THE HOMILY

VATICAN CONFERENCE ON IMPACT INVESTING, JULY 2018

AD LIMINA VISIT OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF NIGERIA, 21.04.18

HOMILY AT THE CHRISM MASS OF 27.03.2018

…FOR EVANGELIZATION AND PASTORAL PROGRESS

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