Father Nicholas Bratko (Ukrainian: Mikola Bratko, born in 1896,

Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast ( uk, Херсо́нська о́бласть, translit=Khersónsʹka óblastʹ, ), also known as Khersonshchyna ( uk, Херсо́нщина, ), is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, currently claimed and partly occupied ...

, Russian Empire - died on 3 April 1958, Lyon, France) was a Greek-Catholic priest.

Biography

Father Bratko was born in 1896 in a Cossack village near Kherson. He was Orthodox due to his Cossack origin, graduated from the classical school and took part in World War I and the Russian Civil War on the side of White movement. Later he emigrated to Constantinople, where he moved into France. He studied science at the University of Lyon, attended lectures on philosophy and theology. In 1922 Bratko joined to the Catholic Church. He studied at the Greek College of Saint Athanasius in Rome, where he graduated in 1927 with a doctorate degree. In the same year he was ordained a priest of the Byzantine rite. Served as secretary of Bishop

Michel d'Herbigny Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d'Herbigny (; 8 May 1880 – 23 December 1957) was a French Jesuit scholar and Roman Catholic bishop. He was president of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, and of the Pontifical Commission for Russia. He was se ...

, after the resignation of which he was appointed rector of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish of Lyon. He also served as chaplain of a Catholic monastic community of sisters. Father Nicholas Bratko died on 3 April 1958 in Lyon.

References

* The Catholic Encyclopedia. T. 1. - M.: Publishing Franciscans, 2002. S. 738. * Russia and the Universal Church. 1961. N 5-6 (53). pp. 30–31.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130126004158/http://vselenstvo.narod.ru/library/lexicon.htm * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bratko, Nicholas Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Russian Orthodox Christians Russian Eastern Catholics 1896 births 1958 deaths