The Servant of God Bishop Teodor Romzha was born on April 14, 1911, in the village of Veykyj Bychkiv, Transcarpathia. From 1930-1933, he studied philosophy. His theological education was spent in Rome from 1933-1937, culminating in a Licentiate. Shortly thereafter, he became an administrator of the parish in Berezovo. beginning in 1939, he was a professor of Philosophy at the seminary in Uzhorod. On September 24, 1944 he was ordained to the episcopacy for the Mukachiv eparchy. During the Red Army presence in Carpathian-Ukraine, he was tireless in his defense of the rights of the Greek Catholic Church there. On October 27, 1947, the Bolsheviks attempted to kill Bishop Romzha. Heavily wounded, he was taken to the hospital in Mukachiv, where he was subsequently poisoned and died on November 1, 1947. Thanks in due part to Bishop Romzha, many of the faithful in the Transcarpathian region left Orthodoxy and returned to their Greek Catholic origins.


Mykyta Budka (Nicetas)
(Excerpt from Ukrainian Weekly No3/4 (1460/1), 18-31.1.'99)

Thei Servant of God Bishop Mykyta Budka was born on 7 June 1877 in the village of Dobomirka, Zbarazh District. In 1905, after graduating from Theology in Vienna and Innsbruck he was ordained to the priesthood by Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky. He was consecrated Bishop in Lviv on 14 October 1912. That same year he was appointed by the Holy See as the Bishop for Ukrainian Catholics in Canada. In 1928, he became Vicar General of the Metropolitan Curia in Lviv. On 11 April 1945 the Sovient government imprrisoned him with a sentence of eight years. He died on 1 October 1949.

Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky
(Excerpt from
Ukrainian Weekly No3/4 (1460/1), 18-31.1.'99)