Nykyta Budka
Ukrainian bishop, Blessed (1877–1949)
Feast: 1 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Nykyta Budka (Ukrainian: Никита Будка aka Nikita, Mykyta, or Nicetas Budka; June 7, 1877 in Dobromirka, Austria-Hungary – October 1, 1949 in Karaganda, USSR) was an Austro-Hungarian-born priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who lived and worked in Austria-Hungary, Canada, Poland, and the Soviet Union. In Canada, he is noted as the first bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, and was the first Eastern Catholic bishop with full jurisdiction ever appointed in the New World.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Santi, beati e testimoni - BeatoNiceta Budka — Santiebeati.it, the Italian Catholic saints dictionary, carries a full entry: BeatoNiceta Budka - Vescovo e martire | Dobromirka, Ucraina, 7 giugno 1877 - Karadzar, Kazakistan, 28 settembre 1949.
- Wikidata Q1926369 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Nykyta Budka (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.