Oswald Baker

Oswald Baker ( born May 1, 1915 in Clowne, Derbyshire; † 2 July 2004 in Downham Market, Norfolk ) was a Roman Catholic priest and a leading figure of the radical wing of the Catholic Old Ritualists in England.

The students visited the Baker -led Jesuit Campion House, Isleworth, Middlesex (England). A theological studies in France, he had to cancel due to 1938 researchers criticism of the Treaty of Versailles. Jesuits and Dominicans refused his request for admission into their order. After completing his education at the seminary of the Archdiocese of Birmingham in 1942 he received the priesthood. After the usual Kaplan years he was appointed in 1949 as pastor at St. Dominic's in Downham Market (Norfolk ).

His refusal, the parish church according to the Roman Missal of Pope Paul VI. To celebrate, attracted public attention in 1975. Although usually elderly priests continued use of the liturgical books of the time were allowed before the Second Vatican Council, but they turned the ecclesiastical authorities in this case, however, because here the Catholic population was deprived of a rural area the opportunity to worship in the renewed shape to celebrate. After Baker persisted in his refusal, he was relieved of his duties as a pastor, but retained right of residence in the parish and was not suspended from the priesthood. With the help of wealthy patrons, he acquired a house in the city and established therein for its services, the Chapel of St. Pius V. a.

Baker welcomed the intervention of the Fraternity of St. Pius X in England, fell out with this, however, by Pope Paul VI. and John Paul II accused of heresy and therefore deprived of their office declared ( sedevacantism ). Over the years, his Worship Ministries declined to about 20 people. To them more often joined with England stays Mel Gibson, son of the famous American sedevacantists Hutton Gibson ( born 1918 ), and shared her communion.