Nykyta Budka
Nicetas Budka ( Nikita or Nykyta Budka, born June 7, 1877 in Dobromirka, District Zbaraj, Galicia, Austria - Hungary, † 1 October 1949 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as Seliger and martyrs. Pope John Paul II spoke Nicetas Budka blessed 2001.
Life
Nicetas Budka studied at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, and was ordained in the archeparchy Lviv on October 25, 1905 priests. His studies he finished at the University of Vienna awarded the degree of Doctor Theologiae. From 1905 to 1912 he was prefect of the Greek - Catholic Theology Seminary, the predecessor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.
On July 15, 1912 Nicetas Budka was appointed under appointment as Titular Bishop of Patara first bishop for the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Canada. Archbishop Andrei Scheptyzkyj OSBM of Lviv and the co-consecrators Bishop Konstantyn Czechowicz ( Eparchy of Przemysl ) and Hryhory Khomyshyn ( Eparchy Stanislaviv ) initiated him on 13 October 1912 Bishop.
Bishop of Canada
As the first Apostolic Exarch of Canada for the Greek Catholics of Ukraine in Canada drove Bishop Budka ahead with expansion. These included new structures that Bauförderung of churches and building a church hierarchy. As a result of expansion it came with the diocesan bishops to local dissonances. In the early days he dedicated, among other things, 1914, the St. Mary's Church in Yorkton, laid in 1916 the foundation stone for the St. Michael's Church in Montreal and dedicated in 1918 in Ottawa, the Church of John the Baptist. Budka 1927 traveled to Rome and the Vatican was the tense situation on the Ukrainian- Catholic Christians in Canada before. Since he could obtain no satisfactory result, he asked to be relieved from the Office of the Apostolic Exarch of Canada.
Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv and martyrdom
After his return to Ukraine was Budka Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, was appointed Vicar General of the archeparchy. He was 1939 Mitkonsekrator in the later Cardinal Jossyf Slipyj.
On 11 April 1945 he was sentenced by the Soviet rulers to eight years in prison and had to spend this time in a criminal and labor camps. After four years, he passed away on October 1, 1949 in the camp of Karaganda in Kazakhstan. Pope John Paul II spoke Nicetas Budka together with other twenty-four martyrs on 27 June 2001 in Lviv saved. His feast day is April 2.