Felix Maria Davídek (12 January 1921 – 18 August 1988) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

[2] It was reported in 1992 that in 1978 the "Vatican ordered Father Davídek to cease performing the duties of a bishop.

Pope John Paul II, in his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis, wrote that "In order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance [...] I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.

"[4] The irregular situation of priests in the Czech Republic in active ministry, but the validity of whose ordination was in doubt, was largely resolved by 2000 through discussions with the Holy See.

While the Vatican confirmed that "conditional re-ordination" did not exclude the possibility that the men had previously been validly ordained, it held to the view that the doubts over validity were genuine: "In reality, based on research done on each case, priestly ordination was not always conferred in a valid manner; perhaps in some cases it may have been, but there remained serious doubts about this, especially in the case of ordinations carried out by Bishop Felix Maria Davidek.