# Jan Blaha

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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| name = Jan Blaha
| title = Bishop
| church = [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church)
| ordination = 12 July 1967
| ordained_by = {{ill|Josef Stimpfle|de}}
| consecration = 28 October 1967
| consecrated_by = [Peter Dubovský](/source/Peter_Dubovsk%C3%BD_(bishop))
| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|3|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Brno](/source/Brno), [Czechoslovakia](/source/First_Czechoslovak_Republic)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|12|13|1938|3|12|df=y}}
| death_place = Brno, [Czech Republic](/source/Czech_Republic)
}}{{Infobox bishopstyles
|name=Jan Blaha
|dipstyle=[The Most Reverend](/source/The_Most_Reverend)
|offstyle=[Your Excellency](/source/Your_Excellency)
|relstyle=[Monsignor](/source/Monsignor)
|deathstyle=none
}}

'''Jan Blaha''' (12 March 1938 in [Brno](/source/Brno) – 13 December 2012 in Brno) was a Czech clandestine [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) bishop. After the [Velvet Revolution](/source/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](/source/Felix_Maria_Dav%C3%ADdek), who was his teacher in the clandestine Church.

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