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| | Despite few followers, “Pope Michael I” holds to beliefs |
 | | Bawden, 45, has claimed the title of Michael I since 1990, when he was elected by six people - two of them his mother and late father - meeting in his father’s consignment store in nearby Belvue. |
 | | Pulvermacher, a former Capuchin priest who took the name “Pope Pius XIII” after his followers elected him in 1998, lives near Spokane, Wash. At least 10 other people around the world have claimed the papacy since 1958, some by election and some by what they claimed was divine revelation. |
 | | But by 1984, disillusioned with the society after his seminary application was rejected, he had come to the position of sedevacantism - the belief that the throne of St. Peter was vacant, and that everyone who had held it since 1958 was a heretic who was unfit for the job. |
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