Nykyta Budka
Ukrainian bishop
Died when: 72 years 113 days (867 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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Nykyta Budka (Ukrainian: ?????? ????? aka Nikita, Mykyta, or Nicetas Budka;June 7, 1877 in Dobromirka, Austria-Hungary – October 1, 1949 in Karaganda, USSR) was a clergyman 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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