Bishop Richard Williamson, a former English bishop of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), died on Wednesday at the age of 84 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. The Priestly Society of ...

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

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, ...

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

When Lefebvre consecrated Williamson and three other SSPX priests as bishops in 1988 ... remaining rector after his “consecration” as bishop. He used this occasion as the launch pad for ...

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 ...

the Society of St. Pius X said in a statement on Thursday. Williamson was among four men consecrated bishop in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the group in 1969 in ...