Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated then reinstated by the Vatican, but was undone by his ...

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in ...

Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal ... bishop in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the religious society ...

Excommunicated Bishop Richard Williamson passed away January 29 at the age of 84, following a cerebral hemorrhage.

His denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his breakaway religious group.

ROME — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a ... in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the group in 1969 ...

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