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,

Bishop Williamson’s public denial of the Jewish Holocaust became an additional roadblock to full communion with the Catholic Church as well as a source of deep tension within the SSPX.

Richard Williamson, a Catholic bishop known for his controversial denial of the Holocaust, has died at age 84. He was part of the Society of St. Pius X and was excommunicated in 1988, later rehabilitated by Pope Benedict XVI.