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Richard Williamson

1940 - 2025

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Richard Nelson Williamson (8 March 1940 – 29 January 2025) was an English traditionalist Catholic prelate and Holocaust denier who opposed the changes in the Church brought about by the Second Vatican Council and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. He was formerly a member of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). In 1988, Williamson was one of four SSPX priests consecrated as bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, for which Pope John Paul II declared all parties had incurred ipso facto automatic excommunication. The validity of the excommunication has always been denied by the SSPX, who, citing canon law, argue that the consecrations were permissible due to a crisis in the Catholic Church. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Williamson is the 675th most popular religious figure (up from 1,565th in 2019), the 595th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,723rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Richard Williamson ranks 675 out of 3,187Before him are Onuphrius, Truganini, Mahākāśyapa, Flavian of Constantinople, Lydia of Thyatira, and Jael. After him are Peter Waldo, Angelus Silesius, Ja'far ibn Abi Talib, Pontius Pilate's wife, John of God, and Huineng.

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Among people born in 1940, Richard Williamson ranks 52Before him are Patrick Stewart, Kip Thorne, Óscar Arias, Terry Gilliam, Nancy Sinatra, and Dario Argento. After him are Anna Karina, Andrzej Żuławski, David Koch, Patrick Leahy, Raquel Welch, and John Lewis. Among people deceased in 2025, Richard Williamson ranks 24Before him are Aga Khan IV, George E. Smith, George Foreman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Fouad Mebazaa, and Frederick Forsyth. After him are Dražen Dalipagić, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Geneviève Page, Roberta Flack, Robert Benton, and Denis Law.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Williamson ranks 595 out of 8,785Before him are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Margot Fonteyn (1919), William Byrd (1543), Alexander Pope (1688), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), and Christopher Nolan (1970). After him are Gary Moore (1952), Richard Attenborough (1923), David Lean (1908), Thomas Carlyle (1795), William Oughtred (1574), and Tim Curry (1946).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, Richard Williamson ranks 13Before him are William Laud (1573), John Wesley (1703), Thomas Becket (1119), Pope Adrian IV (1100), John Knox (1514), and Edward the Confessor (1003). After him are Willibrord (658), Saint Malachy (1094), Thomas Wolsey (1473), John Nelson Darby (1800), John Henry Newman (1801), and Charles Spurgeon (1834).