Jan Blaha Explained

Jan Blaha
Dipstyle:The Most Reverend
Offstyle:Your Excellency
Relstyle:Monsignor
Deathstyle:none

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 DavĂ­dek, who was his teacher in the clandestine Church.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obituary in Czech . 2012-12-14 . 2016-03-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160313094135/http://tisk.cirkev.cz/z-domova/zemrel-biskup-jan-blaha/ . dead .
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bblah.html Jan Blaha