Richard Williamson

I cannot offer Williamson uncomplicated praise, and I will not pretend otherwise. A London-born, Cambridge-educated traditionalist bishop, he opposed the Second Vatican Council out of conviction, but he was also a Holocaust denier and conspiracy theorist, excommunicated twice. Denying documented atrocity is, to me, a betrayal of the dead, and no theological sincerity outweighs that. What I find saddest is the waste: real learning bent toward falsehood. He died in January 2025, and an honest record has to hold two things together, the intensity of his faith and the genuine harm of his words. Conviction is not the same as truth.

Name (English)

Richard Williamson

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・ウィリアムソン

Reading

りちゃーど・うぃりあむそん

Born

March 8, 1940 (age 86)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

Catholic bishop / Catholic priest / bishop

University

Clare College

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%20(%E5%8F%B8%E6%95%99)

Tags

• Catholic bishop
• Catholic priest
• bishop

Last updated

2026-06-02

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