# Basil Ladyka

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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name           = Archbishop Basil Ladyka, [O.S.B.M.](/source/O.S.B.M.)
| image          = 
| birth_name     = Volodymyr Vasylyovych Ladyka
| birth_date     = {{birth date|1884|8|2|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [Drohobych](/source/Drohobych), [Austro-Hungarian Empire](/source/Austro-Hungarian_Empire) <small>(present day [Lviv Oblast](/source/Lviv_Oblast), [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine))</small>
| death_date     = {{death date and age|df=yes|1956|9|1|1884|8|2}}
| death_place    = [Winnipeg](/source/Winnipeg), Manitoba, Canada
| church         = [Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church](/source/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church)
| title          = Apostolic Exarch of [Apostolic Exarchate of Manitoba](/source/Ukrainian_Catholic_Archeparchy_of_Winnipeg)
| appointed      = 20 May 1929
| ended          = 1 September 1956
| ordination     = 4 August 1912 ([Priest](/source/Priesthood_(Catholic_Church)))
| ordained_by    = [Soter Ortynsky](/source/Soter_Ortynsky)
| consecration   = 14 July 1929 ([Bishop](/source/Bishop_(Catholic_Church)))
| consecrated_by = [Constantine Bohachevsky](/source/Constantine_Bohachevsky)
| predecessor    = Blessed [Nykyta Budka](/source/Nykyta_Budka)
| successor      = [Maxim Hermaniuk](/source/Maxim_Hermaniuk)
| other_post     = [Titular Bishop of Abydos](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Abydus) (1929–1948),<br />Titular Archbishop of [Martyropolis](/source/Diocese_of_Martyropolis) (1948–1956)
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Archbishop '''Basil Volodymyr Ladyka''', [O.S.B.M.](/source/O.S.B.M.) ({{langx|uk|Василь Володимир Ладика}}; 2 August 1884 in [Drohobych](/source/Drohobych), [Austro-Hungarian Empire](/source/Austro-Hungarian_Empire) (present day [Lviv Oblast](/source/Lviv_Oblast), [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine)) – 1 September 1956 in [Winnipeg](/source/Winnipeg), Canada) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian [Ukrainian Greek Catholic](/source/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church) hierarch. He served as the Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Canada from 20 May 1929 until his death on 1 September 1956. He had the next titles: [Apostolic Exarch of Canada](/source/Ukrainian_Catholic_Archeparchy_of_Winnipeg) from 20 May 1929 until 19 January 1948, Apostolic Exarch of Central Canada from 19 January 1948 until 10 March 1951; and Apostolic Exarch of Manitoba from 10 March 1951 until 1 September 1956.

==Life==
Archbishop Ladyka was born in the family of Vasyl and Kateryna (née Plyauschak) Ladyka in [Halychyna](/source/Halychyna). After the school and gymnasium education, he subsequently joined the [Order of Saint Basil the Great](/source/Order_of_Saint_Basil_the_Great) in 1903, where he made a [profession](/source/Profession_(religious)) on April 2, 1905, and a solemn profession on August 28, 1909. Ladyka was ordained as a [priest](/source/priest) on August 4, 1912,<ref name="CH"/> after completed philosophical and theological studies in [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec),  Canada, where he lived in the Basilian community from 1909.<ref name="IV"/>

After his ordination Fr. Ladyka worked as a missionary in Canada and from 1922 until 1929 served as [Hegumen](/source/Hegumen) of the monastery in [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton).<ref name="IV">{{Cite book|script-title=uk:Ієрархія Київської Церкви (861—1996)|last=Блажейовський|first=Дмитро|year=1996|publisher=Каменяр|location=Львів|pages=348–349|language=uk}}</ref>

On May 20, 1929, Fr. Ladyka was nominated by Pope [Pius XI](/source/Pius_XI) and on July 14, 1929 [consecrated](/source/Consecration) to the [Episcopate](/source/Episcopal_polity) as the [Titular Bishop of Abydos](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Abydus) and the second [Apostolic Exarch of Canada](/source/Ukrainian_Catholic_Archeparchy_of_Winnipeg). The principal [consecrator](/source/consecrator) was Bishop [Constantine Bohachevsky](/source/Constantine_Bohachevsky).<ref name="CH">{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bladyka|Archbishop Basil Vladimir Ladyka, O.S.B.M. †|15 September 2017}}</ref>

On June 21, 1948, he was elevated in rank of archbishop with title of the [Titular See of Martyropolis](/source/Diocese_of_Martyropolis).<ref name="CH"/> Archbishop Ladyka was a founder of the different Ukrainian associations in Canada<ref name="IV"/> and died on September 1, 1956, in the age 72.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.svoboda-news.com/arxiv/pdf/1956/Svoboda-1956-170.pdf Necrology] at [Svoboda (newspaper)](/source/Svoboda_(newspaper)) {{in lang|uk}}

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Category:20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
Category:Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Canada
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Category:Order of Saint Basil the Great

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