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Blessed Nikita Budka

Blessed Nikita Budka Also known as

Niceta Budka
Nykyta Budka
Mykyta Budka

28 September
1 October on some calendars

Profile

Greek-Catholic. Studied theology in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, graduating in 1905. Ordained on 25 October 1905. First bishop for Ukrainian Catholics in Canada on 15 July 1912. Auxiliary bishop of Lviv, Ukraine 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)

1 October 1949 in a Soviet concentration camp in Karaganda, Kazakhstan

24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II (decree of martyrdom)

27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine

Additional Information

other sites in english
- Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
- Hagiography Circle

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Dicastero delle Cause dei Santi
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati

nettsteder i norsk
- Den katolske kirke

MLA Citation

“Blessed Nikita Budka“. CatholicSaints.Info. 7 July 2023. Web. 24 April 2024. <>