Blessed Nikita Budka
Blessed Nikita Budka (born June 7, 1877 AD in Dobromirka, Ukraine; died October 1, 1949 AD in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop, the first Ukrainian Catholic bishop appointed for Canada, who later returned to his homeland and died a martyr in the Soviet gulag. Also written Nykyta Budka, he is venerated as a Blessed and martyr of the Church. His feast day is October 1.
A pioneering pastor of Ukrainian emigrants and a faithful shepherd under persecution, Bishop Nikita Budka was arrested when the Soviet regime suppressed the Greek Catholic Church and died in a labor camp in Kazakhstan. He was beatified in 2001 among the Ukrainian martyrs.
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| Blessed Nikita Budka | |
|---|---|
| Feast Day | October 01 |
| Profession | Bishop; martyr |
| Rel. Affiliation | Catholic Church; Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Patronage | Ukrainian emigrants; those persecuted for the faith; the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Attributes | Byzantine episcopal vesture; palm of martyrdom |
| Birthplace | Dobromirka, Ukraine |
| Death Place | Karaganda, Kazakhstan |
| Cause of Death | Martyrdom; died in a Soviet labor camp in Kazakhstan |
| Primary Shrine | Ukraine |
Biography
Nikita Budka was born on June 7, 1877, at Dobromirka in Galicia, in the western part of present-day Ukraine. He studied for the priesthood and was ordained, serving the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and giving special attention to the pastoral care of emigrants. In 1912 he was ordained a bishop and sent to Canada as the first bishop for the many Ukrainian Catholics who had settled there, organizing parishes, clergy, and institutions across the vast country and laying the foundations of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada.
After some years he returned to his homeland, where he served in the administration of the Archeparchy of Lviv under Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Following the Second World War, the Soviet regime outlawed the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and arrested its hierarchy. Bishop Budka was seized in 1945, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor.
Elderly and infirm, he was deported to a labor camp in the region of Karaganda in Kazakhstan, where he endured the brutal conditions of the gulag. He died there on October 1, 1949, a martyr for his fidelity to the Church, his body left in the steppe. He was beatified on June 27, 2001, by Pope John Paul II at Lviv, among the Blessed martyrs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. His feast is kept on October 1.
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