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David Allen Bawden (born September 22 1959 in Oklahoma City) who calls himself Pope Michael is an American citizen and a conclavist claimant to the papacy. He stated in 2009 that he had approximately 30 solid followers.Bawden was elected by a group of six laypeople which included himself and his parents who had come to believe that the Catholic Church had seceded from the Catholic faith and that there had been no legitimate Popes elected since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.