Jan Blaha

Jan Blaha
Bishop
ChurchCatholic Church
Orders
Ordination12 July 1967
by Josef Stimpfle
Consecration28 October 1967
by Peter Dubovský
Personal details
Born(1938-03-12)12 March 1938
Died13 December 2012(2012-12-13) (aged 74)
Styles of
Jan Blaha
Reference styleThe Most Reverend
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleMonsignor
Posthumous stylenone

Jan Blaha (12 March 1938 in Brno – 13 December 2012 in Brno) was a Czech clandestine Roman Catholic bishop. After the Velvet Revolution he no longer ministered as a bishop.

Ordained to the priesthood on 12 July 1967, Blaha was secretly ordained a bishop on 28 October 1967 because of the Communist Government of Czechoslovakia and the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church by the government.[1][2] He secretly ordained as a bishop Felix Maria Davídek, who was his teacher in the clandestine Church.

Notes

  1. ^ "Obituary in Czech". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
  2. ^ Jan Blaha