Nicetas Budka

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Nicetas Budka

Nicetas Budka (also Nikita or Nykyta Budka ; born June 7, 1877 in Dobromirka , Sbarasch district , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † October 1, 1949 in Qaraghandy , Kazakh SSR ) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop . He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a blessed and a martyr . Pope John Paul II beatified Nicetas Budka in 2001.

Life

Nicetas Budka studied at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and was on 25 October 1905 in the archeparchy Lviv for priests ordained. His studies he completed at the University of Vienna with the promotion to Theologiae Doctor . From 1905 to 1912 he was prefect of the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary, the predecessor of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv .

On July 15, 1912, Nicetas Budka was called to be the first bishop for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Christians in Canada , with the titular diocese of Patara . Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky OSBM Lvov and the co-consecrators Bishop Konstantyn Czechowicz ( eparchy Przemyśl ) and Hryhorij Chomyschyn ( eparchy Stanislau ) initiated him on 13 October 1912. Bishop .

Bishop of Canada

As the first Apostolic Exarch of Canada for the Greek Catholic Christians of Ukraine in Canada , Bishop Budka drove the expansion. This included new structures, the construction funding of churches and the establishment of a church hierarchy. As a result of the expansions, local dissonances arose with the diocesan bishops . During the founding period he consecrated St. Mary's Church in Yorkton in 1914, laid the foundation stone for St. Michaels Church in Montreal in 1916 and consecrated the Church of St. John the Baptist in Ottawa in 1918. In 1927 Budka traveled to Rome and presented the tense situation for Ukrainian Catholic Christians in Canada to the Vatican . Unable to obtain a satisfactory result, he asked to be released from the office of Exarch Apostolic of Canada.

Auxiliary Bishop in Lviv and Martyrdom

After his return to Ukraine, Budka became auxiliary bishop in Lviv and was appointed vicar general of the archeparchy. In 1939 he was co-consecrator of the later Cardinal Jossyf Slipyj .

On April 11, 1945, the Soviet rulers sentenced him to eight years' imprisonment and had to spend this time in a prison and labor camp . After four years he died on October 1, 1949 in the Qaraghandy camp in Kazakhstan. Pope John Paul II beatified Nicetas Budka together with twenty-four other martyrs on June 27, 2001 in Lviv. His feast day is April 2nd .

See also

literature

  • Pioneer Bishop, Pioneer Times: Nykyta Budka in Canada by Stella HRYNIUK, St. John's College, University of Manitoba ( PDF )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: "The discipline of the Greek Church in the light of polemics at the time of church separation" University library of the University of Vienna, list of dissertations from 1831 to 1984, XI., 151 p. 1908 [1]
  2. ↑ Historical of St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church ( Memento of October 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ History of St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church
  4. ↑ Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine - Our History
personal data
SURNAME Budka, Nicetas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Budka, Nikita; Budka, Nykyta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian bishop, martyr, blessed
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobromirka , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1949
Place of death Karagandy , Kazakh SSR