Blessed Nikita Budka
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- Also known as
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Nykyta Budka
Mykyta Budka
- Memorial
- 2 April
- Profile
- Greek-Catholic.
Studied theology in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, graduating in 1905.
Ordained on 25 October 1905.
First bishop for Ukrainian Catholics on 15 July Canada in 1912.
Auxiliary bishop of Lviv on 14 October 1912.
Vicar General of the Metropolitan Curia in Lviv in 1928.
Arrested for his faith and sentenced to eight years in the Soviet concentration camps on 11 April 1945.
Martyr.
- Born
- 7 June 1877 in Dobomirka, Zbarazh District, Poland (modern Ukraine)
- Died
- martyred on 1 October 1949 in a Soviet concentration camp in Karaganda
- Beatified
- 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine
- Canonized
- pending
- Additional Information
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Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
Kirken i Norge [norwegian]
Canada's First Ukrainian Saint
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