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John Baptist Mary David S.S. (French: Jean-Baptiste-Marie David) (June 4 1761 – July 12 1841) was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Bardstown in Kentucky from 1832 to 1833.David was born in Couëron in the Province of Brittany (now the Department of Loire-Atlantique) in pre-revolutionary France. At age 7 he was placed under the care of his uncle a priest who instructed the boy in Latin French and music.