Richard Williamson was one of the four bishops consecrated in 1988 without a papal mandate by the former Archbishop of Dakar, Marcel Lefebvre, who opposed the Second Vatican Council. After ...

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

A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has died ...

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 ...

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

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

Soon after becoming Catholic, he joined the traditionalist Catholic movement founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and entered the SSPX seminary in Switzerland. Lefebvre ordained Williamson as a ...

The statement did not say where he died. Bishop Williamson was among four men consecrated bishop in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the religious society in 1969 in opposition to ...

Williamson was among four men consecrated bishop in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the group in 1969 in opposition to the Second Vatican Council. Vatican II was the series ...

The British-born Williamson was a member of the ultra-traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX), founded in 1970 by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in opposition to the reforms of the ...

Soon after becoming Catholic, he joined the traditionalist Catholic movement founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and entered the SSPX seminary in Switzerland. Lefebvre ordained Williamson as a ...