About Jan Blaha
Lived 1938 – 2012 (aged 74). Jan Blaha was a Czech catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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. He secretly ordained as a bishop Felix Maria Davídek, who was his teacher in the clandestine Church.
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Who was Jan Blaha?
Czech bishop (1938–2012)
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Jan Blaha was born on 12 March 1938 in Brno.
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Jan Blaha died on 13 December 2012 in Brno.
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Jan Blaha was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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Jan Blaha was Czech.
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