Basil Ladyka

{{Infobox Christian leader

| name = Archbishop Basil Ladyka, O.S.B.M.

| image =

| birth_name = Volodymyr Vasylyovych Ladyka

| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|8|2|df=y}}

| birth_place = Drohobych, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1956|9|1|1884|8|2}}

| death_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

| church = Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

| title = Apostolic Exarch of Apostolic Exarchate of Manitoba

| appointed = 20 May 1929

| ended = 1 September 1956

| ordination = 4 August 1912 (Priest)

| ordained_by = Soter Ortynsky

| consecration = 14 July 1929 (Bishop)

| consecrated_by = Constantine Bohachevsky

| predecessor = Blessed Nykyta Budka

| successor = Maxim Hermaniuk

| other_post = Titular Bishop of Abydos (1929–1948),
Titular Archbishop of Martyropolis (1948–1956)

}}

Archbishop Basil Volodymyr Ladyka, O.S.B.M. ({{langx|uk|Василь Володимир Ладика}}; 2 August 1884 in Drohobych, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present day Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) – 1 September 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian Ukrainian Greek Catholic 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 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. After the school and gymnasium education, he subsequently joined the Order of Saint Basil the Great in 1903, where he made a profession on April 2, 1905, and a solemn profession on August 28, 1909. Ladyka was ordained as a priest on August 4, 1912, after completed philosophical and theological studies in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he lived in the Basilian community from 1909.

After his ordination Fr. Ladyka worked as a missionary in Canada and from 1922 until 1929 served as Hegumen of the monastery in Edmonton.{{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}}

On May 20, 1929, Fr. Ladyka was nominated by Pope Pius XI and on July 14, 1929 consecrated to the Episcopate as the Titular Bishop of Abydos and the second Apostolic Exarch of Canada. The principal consecrator was Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bladyka|Archbishop Basil Vladimir Ladyka, O.S.B.M. †|15 September 2017}}

On June 21, 1948, he was elevated in rank of archbishop with title of the Titular See of Martyropolis. Archbishop Ladyka was a founder of the different Ukrainian associations in Canada and died on September 1, 1956, in the age 72.