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March 19, 2015

SSPX bishop excommunicated — again — for illicit ordination

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson’s 1988 excommunication from the Catholic church. On Mar. 19, 2015, Williamson was excommunicated automatically for ordaining a bishop without papal approval, Fr. Jean-Michel Faure, who was also excommunicated. In this 2008 photo, Williamson is seen in a church in Stockholm, Sweden.

A traditionalist bishop who has denied the Holocaust has been automatically excommunicated along with the priest he illicitly ordained a bishop.

Published in International