Martín Dávila Gandara (born 12 May 1965) is a Mexican Sedevacantist bishop. He is the bishop of the ''Sociedad Sacerdotal Trento'' (Priestly Society of Trent).

Biography

Gandara was born into a Catholic family in

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, on 12 May 1965. His parents were 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). In December 1988, being a deacon, he was sent to

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, to assist in Carmona's intense ministry and work. 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. Bishop Mark Pivarunas of the

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(CMRI), who along with Bishop

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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.

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