Excommunicated Bishop Richard Williamson passed away January 29 at the age of 84, following a cerebral hemorrhage.
Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated and then reinstated by the Vatican, but he was undone by ...
Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his breakaway society, ...
Soon after becoming Catholic, he joined the traditionalist Catholic movement founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and ...
His denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his breakaway religious group.
Excommunicated traditionalist Bishop Richard N. Williamson died Jan. 29 in a hospital in Margate, England, at the age of 84 after suffering a brain hemorrhage. The bishop's deat ...
Bishop Williamson was among four men consecrated bishop in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the religious society in 1969 in opposition to the Second Vatican Council. Vatican II was ...