{{Expand Czech|topic=bio}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = Jan Blaha | title = Bishop | church = Catholic Church | ordination = 12 July 1967 | ordained_by = {{ill|Josef Stimpfle|de}} | consecration = 28 October 1967 | consecrated_by = Peter Dubovský | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|3|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Brno, Czechoslovakia | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|12|13|1938|3|12|df=y}} | death_place = Brno, Czech Republic }}{{Infobox bishopstyles |name=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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tisk.cirkev.cz/z-domova/zemrel-biskup-jan-blaha/ |title=Obituary in Czech |access-date=2012-12-14 |archive-date=2016-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313094135/http://tisk.cirkev.cz/z-domova/zemrel-biskup-jan-blaha/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bblah.html Jan Blaha]</ref> He secretly ordained as a bishop Felix Maria Davídek, who was his teacher in the clandestine Church.
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