Jan Blaha

Jan Blaha (born March 12, 1938 in Brno ; † December 13, 2012 ibid) was a Roman Catholic secret bishop of the Czech underground church , ordained with papal permission .

Life

Jan Blaha, a trained chemical engineer, received at the time of the Underground Church during the communist period on July 12, 1967 in Augsburg the priesthood by the Bishop of Augsburg Josef Stimpfle . The secret bishop in Czechoslovakia, Peter Dubovský SJ , donated him the episcopal ordination on October 28 of the same year near Prague , also underground. Blaha worked as a priest in the underground, mainly in the diocese of Königgrätz ; In 1999 he became parish vicar in the parish Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Brno-Křenová .

Only one day after his ordination he consecrated the secret bishop Felix Maria Davídek ; however, this consecration was never recognized by the Vatican.

In 1989, after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Blaha campaigned for the Czechoslovak underground priests and bishops to be integrated into the official Roman Catholic Church, but he did not succeed.

Web links

Entry on Jan Blaha on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 15, 2012.
tisk.cirkev.cz: Obituary on the homepage of the Czech Bishops' Conference (Czech), accessed on December 14, 2012

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c “Czech secret bishop Jan Blaha died” , kathweb.at, December 15, 2012
^ Franz Gansrigler: Everyone was a Pope: Secret Churches in Eastern Europe , Müller 1991

personal data
SURNAME	Blaha, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech clergyman, Roman Catholic secret bishop in Czechoslovakia
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 2012
Place of death	Brno

[kathweb-1] “Czech secret bishop Jan Blaha died” , kathweb.at, December 15, 2012

[2] Franz Gansrigler: Everyone was a Pope: Secret Churches in Eastern Europe , Müller 1991