Gabrijel Bukatko (27 January 1913 – 19 October 1981) was a

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n Roman Catholic prelate and Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was an Apostolic Administrator and Eparchial Bishop from 1950 to 1981 of the Eastern Catholic

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and a Coadjutor Archbishop from 1961 to 1964 and an Archbishop from 1964 to 1980 of the

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Biography

Born in Donji Andrijevci,

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(present-day

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) in the Ruthenian family of Dionisije and Julija Bukatko in 1913, he was

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on 2 April 1939 by Bishop Dionisije Njaradi for the

. Fr. Bukatko was the Rector of Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Križevci from 1941 to 1950. He was appointed by the

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an Apostolic Administrator of

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on 1950 and two years later, on 23 February 1952 also was named as titular bishop of Severiana. He was consecrated to the

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on 27 April 1952. The principal

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was Archbishop Josip Ujčić, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Josip Lach and Bishop Stjepan Bäuerlein in

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. He was appointed Eparchial Bishop of the

on 22 July 1960, but the next year, on 2 March 1961 become a Coadjutor Archbishop and on 24 March 1964 an Archbishop of the

. Archbishop Bukatko continued to govern the Eparchy of Križevci as an Apostolic Administrator until his death. Also he was an Apostolic Administrator of Apostolic Administration of Banat from 1961 to 1971. He resigned as Archbishop of Belgrade on 4 March 1980. He participated in the

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as a

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in 1960th. He died in Vrbas on 19 October 1981.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bukatko, Gabrijel 1913 births 1981 deaths People from Donji Andrijevci 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Serbia 20th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Croatian Eastern Catholics Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia Participants in the Second Vatican Council Serbian Roman Catholic archbishops