Martín Dávila Gandara (born 12 May 1965) is a Mexican Catholic

sedevacantist Sedevacantism ( la, Sedevacantismus) is a doctrinal position within traditionalist Catholicism, which holds that the present occupier of the Holy See is not a valid pope due to the pope's espousal of one or more heresies and that therefore, fo ...

bishop. He is the bishop of the ''Sociedad Sacerdotal Trento'' (Priestly Society of Trent).

Biography

Early life

Martín Dávila Gandara was born in a small town in

Jalisco Jalisco (, , ; Nahuatl: Xalixco), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco ; Nahuatl: Tlahtohcayotl Xalixco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal En ...

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, on 12 May 1965. He was born into a Catholic family. His parents are Don José del Refugio Avila and Maria Mercedes Gándara Lozano. He was baptized on 10 June 1965 in the Parish of Saint Louis Bishop, in the same town he was born, and was confirmed on 21 January 1966. His mother instilled in him a devotion to the ''Señor de los Rayos'' (Our Lord of the Rays). In 1972, his family moved to

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, Chihuahua. On solemn liturgical days, he traveled to hear Mass from the Church of Jesus and Mary in

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, a church belonging to the

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(El Paso stands across the

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from Ciudad Juárez).

Dicaonate

In December 1988, being a deacon, he was sent to

Acapulco Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , also , nah, Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has bee ...

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, to assist in Carmona's intense ministry and work.

Priesthood

In 1996, he moved for ten months to Acapulco, where he exhumed and transferred to the Divine Providence Church the body of Carmona (who died in 1991), which was previously buried some miles from the church. It is claimed that during the transference, Carmona's body showed no signs of decomposition, and that pictures taken of him when his body was put into the crypt looked the same at the time of his funeral.

Episcopacy

Bishop

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of the

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(CMRI), who along with Bishop

Daniel Dolan Daniel Lytle Dolan (28 May 1951 – 26 April 2022) was an American Catholic sedevacantist bishop. Biography Daniel Lytle Dolan was born on 28 May 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. In 1965, he began his preparation for the priesthood ...

inherited the responsibilities of the care of numerous churches and thousands of sedevacantists throughout Mexico after Carmona's death, requested the priests of the ''Sociedad Sacerdotal Trento'' to elect one of their own to be consecrated a bishop. On 14 October 1998, the priests, by a two-thirds majority of their votes, elected Dávila to be consecrated a bishop. On 11 May 1999, Dávila was consecrated a bishop by Pivarunas and Dolan in the Temple of the Divine Providence. October 2002, he received the Diploma from the Institute of Sciences and Higher Education, AC (Hermosillo, Sonora), Higher School of Philosophy that accredits him as a member of the first Generation (1998-2002) of the degree in philosophy. On 16 February 2022, in Argentina, he consecrated Argentinian Catholic sedevacantist priest Father Pio Espina a bishop.Católicos Tradicionais
Consagração Episcopal de Mons. Pio Espina pelas mãos de Mons. Martín Dávila Gandara
17 February 2022.

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