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Timeline: Judaism and antisemitism, Richard Williamson

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2025

  1. Former SSPX bishop Richard Williamson dies at 84

    Richard Williamson, one of the four bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988, died on 29 January 2025 aged 84. Expelled from the SSPX in 2012, he had incurred excommunication again in 2015 by consecrating a bishop in Brazil without papal mandate; his televised Holocaust denial in 2009 had led to a conviction for incitement in Germany.

    SourcesExcommunicated Bishop Williamson dies at 84 (Detroit Catholic (Catholic News Service))Expelled Society of St. Pius X bishop Richard Williamson dies at 84 (EWTN News)Excommunicated Holocaust-denying Bishop Williamson dies at 84 (Catholic Review (Catholic News Service))

2012

  1. SSPX expels Bishop Richard Williamson

    The Society of Saint Pius X expelled Richard Williamson, citing his distancing from the Society's leadership and his refusal to show due respect and obedience to his superiors. He had opposed the Society's talks with Rome.

    SourcesSSPX expels bishop who opposed talks with Vatican (National Catholic Reporter)Catholic group expels Holocaust denier, Bishop Williamson (The Jewish Chronicle)

2009

  1. Swedish TV airs SSPX bishop Williamson's Holocaust denial

    Swedish television broadcast an interview in which Richard Williamson denied the existence of Nazi gas chambers. It aired as Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops. The Vatican said the pope had not known of his views and required him to disavow them publicly; he never did.

    SourcesExcommunicated Holocaust-denying Bishop Williamson dies at 84 (Catholic Review (Catholic News Service))Richard Williamson, excommunicated bishop who denied Holocaust, dies (America Magazine)