Baba Ifálọdún

Class – Hauntings and Paranormal from the Perspective of the Ifá Religion

Sat at 3:15 pm in The Astral Garden

Bio for Baba Ifálọdún

Baba Ifálọdún, Jean-Jérôme Christophe Baudry, has studied the Yorùbá Ifá-Òrìṣà belief system for most of his life. He is the son of Dr. Lydia Gonzalez-Huguet, a gifted Elegun and field researcher for the respected Cuban ethnologist and musicologist Don Fernando Ortiz Fernández (1881–1969), and the author of La casa-templo en la Regla de Ocha (1968). She was posthumously given the Òrìṣà name Omigbade and was enshrined in Gelede.

Jean-Jérôme is the Co-Founder of the Consejo Cultural Yorùbá de Canada and the Ifá-Òrìṣà Religious Council of Canada, both founded in 2012 and representing practitioners of the Yorùbá Ifá-Òrìṣà faith from around the world. The spiritual community he leads includes practitioners from many countries and linguistic backgrounds, allowing him to play an active role in the globalization of traditional Yorùbá culture and religion in its various forms and manifestations.

He received Itefa Itolodu on November 2, 2009, and is Omo Odu. He was initiated as an Apena Ogboni in 2019 and as Akoda Awo in 2023. He has studied and practiced with various lineages of Ifá, including Isese families in Oyo, Ife, Ibadan, and Osogbo, as well as Afro-Cuban Regla Ocha-Ifá and Vodun-Fa (Fa-gbassa from Abomey, Benin).

In 2014, he organized a two-year series titled “African Indigenous Belief and Knowledge Systems” in partnership with York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute. Most recently, in 2025, he was hired as an Ifá-Òrìṣà Subject Matter Expert at McGill University’s School of Religious Studies, working alongside Harvard graduate Dr. Ayodeji Ogunnaike. That same year, he received the AFRICIES Heritage Award for preserving the practice of Ifá-Òrìṣà Isese in Canada.

Jean-Jérôme is also a Director of Technology Solutions Architecture and has worked in the information technology industry for 35 years. He leverages this background to help facilitate the recovery, digitization, and preservation of ancestral wisdom for future generations.

Through the Consejo and the Ifá-Òrìṣà Religious Council, he has actively promoted the vision that mainstream society in Canada and around the world recognize the Ifá-Òrìṣà belief system—including its various lineages such as Ifá-Òrìṣà, Santería, Lucumí, Candomblé, Vodun-Fa, and Èsìn Òrìṣà Ìbílè—as the sixth largest religious and spiritual belief system in the world, with well over 100 million adepts. As such, its followers should enjoy the same recognition and legal protections as those of other major world faiths.

Visit Baba Ifálọdún online at consejoculturalyoruba.ca