David Bawden was born in 1959 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Clara and Kennett David Bawden.
13 Facts About David Bawden
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David Bawden attended elementary school and high school in Oklahoma City.
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David Bawden entered the SSPX seminary in Econe, Switzerland, in 1977, then transferred to Saint Joseph's Priory in Armada, Michigan.
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David Bawden worked for the school and his brother attended it.
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David Bawden believed that all the popes since the death of Pope Pius XII on October 9,1958, were modernists, heretics, and apostates, and that their elections were invalid.
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David Bawden subsequently styled himself "Michael I" after Saint Michael the Archangel.
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David Bawden had invited hundreds of Independent Catholic bishops and sedevacantists to the election, but none attended.
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David Bawden established a presence on the internet as an alternative claimant to the papacy; in 2009 he stated that he had approximately 30 "solid followers".
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David Bawden supported himself through donations and by republishing out-of-print religious literature.
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David Bawden announced that he had been ordained a priest and then consecrated a bishop on December 11,2011, by an Independent Catholic episcopus vagans, Bishop Robert Biarnesen of the Duarte-Costa and Old Catholic episcopal lineages.
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David Bawden said that he was able to validly celebrate Catholic sacraments, offer the Mass, ordain other men to the priesthood, and consecrate them as bishops, since he believed that the Duarte-Costa and Old Catholic lineages were recognized as valid by the Catholic Church.
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On July 10,2022, his church's Twitter account posted that David Bawden had to have emergency surgery and was in a coma.
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David Bawden died on August 2,2022, in Kansas City, Missouri.