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Richard Nelson Williamson (born 8 March 1940) is a British independent Traditionalist Catholic bishop who opposes the changes in the Church brought about by the Second Vatican Council. In 1988, Williamson was one of four Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) priests illicitly consecrated as bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre , for which Pope John Paul II declared he had incurred ipso facto automatic excommunication . [6]
Jun 29, 2024 · A weekly column written by his excellency Bishop Richard Williamson. Eleison Comments is currently available in five languages.
Jun 27, 2024 · The dissident Catholic bishop Richard Williamson, who caused an outcry in 2009 after publicly denying the Holocaust in a TV interview whilst being readmitted into the fold of the Catholic Church by the Vatican, has publicly attacked Pope Benedict XVI for absolving Jews of the age-old Christian charge of committing ‘deicide’.
Nov 29, 2021 · Richard N. Williamson (b. 1940) converted to Catholicism in 1971, was ordained a priest of the Catholic Church by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1976 for the latter’s Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX), and was consecrated a bishop by the Archbishop for the same fraternity in 1988.
Mar 19, 2015 · British Bishop Richard Williamson violated church law when he ordained Fr. Jean-Michel Faure, 73, a bishop without papal approval during a ceremony in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, on Thursday,...
Jan 31, 2019 · Ultra-conservative bishop Richard Williamson has been fined 10,000 euros for denying aspects of the Holocaust in an interview for Swedish television. He made the comments while on German soil.
Bishop Richard Williamson, whose recent rehabilitation by Pope Benedict XVI provoked global outrage, has apologized for remarks in which he denied the Holocaust.
