Bishop Nykyta Budka: Michael Buyachok

Archbishop Lawrence Huculak Dept: UKRAINIAN Catholic bishops from around the world will gather in Manitoba in September, marking the first time the hierarchy of this Eastern-rite church meets in Canada, according to Winnipeg Free Press. source: www.synod2012.com FROM LEFT: Rev. Mark Gnutel, Archbishop Lawrence Huculak, Rev. Michael Buyachok and Rev. Volodymyr Bashutskyy with a photo of Bishop Nykyta Budka, who was martyred in a Soviet concentration camp, and his mitre to the right of the bishop s photo. About 40 bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church will travel to Portage la Prairie for their annual synod, Sept. 9 to 15, to discuss church governance and care for laity, says Archbishop Lawrence Huculak of Winnipeg. A century in Canada 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Bishop Nykyta Budka s arrival in Winnipeg from Ukraine to minister to the 150,000 Ukrainian Catholics who had immigrated to Canada. Budka organized parishes and structures in the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, which later grew into a Metropolitan province based in Winnipeg, with four Eparchies or dioceses across the country 1928: Budka returned to Ukraine, where he was arrested along with other bishops in 1945 and sent to a concentration camp in Kazakhstan, where he died four years later. The exact location of his grave is unknown. 2001: Budka was beatified by Pope John Paul II and is now referred to as Blessed Bishop Nykyta Budka. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.