1 day ago · Richard Nelson Williamson was born on March 8, 1940, in the London neighborhood of Hampstead, one of three sons of John Blackburn Williamson, a manager at Marks & Spencer, the British department ...

Richard Nelson Williamson (8 March 1940 – 29 January 2025) was an English traditionalist Catholic bishop and Holocaust denier who opposed the changes in the church brought about by the Second Vatican Council.

Jan 30, 2025 · ROME (AP) — 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, has died. He was 84. Williamson suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in his native England on Jan. 24 and died Wednesday, the Society of St. Pius X said in a statement on Thursday.

Jan 30, 2025 · 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.

6 days ago · 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 ...

6 days ago · Richard Nelson Williamson was born into an Anglican family in Buckinghamshire on March 8, 1940, according to Britain’s Telegraph newspaper. He studied English at Clare College, part of the ...

Jan 30, 2025 · Richard Williamson, former auxiliary bishop of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) and undoubtedly the most controversial of them, died January 29 from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 84.

6 days ago · 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 ...

Jan 30, 2025 · 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 ...

Richard Nelson Williamson (8 March 1940 – 29 January 2025) was an English traditionalist Catholic bishop. He was known for being against 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.