Çiprian Nika

Çiprian Nika, OFM (Shkodër, 19 July 1900 – 11 March 1948) was an Albanian Catholic priest, Franciscan, teacher, and publicist.

The diocesan process for his beatification was announced on November 10, 2002, by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, during the Eucharist at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Shkodër.

[1] He was born in Shkodër as Deda, to Mëhill Nikë and Prenda Ali Mirashi[2] from the village of Celaj (now Shosh).

Under the direction of Father Martin Gjoka, he also participated in the Franciscan wind orchestra of around 40 people, in which he played the flute.

On 28 December 1947, the Trial Panel ruled that he was to die by firing squad and that Pal Dodaj of Janjevo was to be imprisoned for life.