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Holocaust-Denying Bishop Will Leave Argentina, Superior Says

Christian Bouchacourt, South American superior for the Society of St. Pius X in Buenos Aires, told the newspaper La Nacion on Saturday, Feb. 21, that British-born Richard Williamson would comply with the government order within the given deadline.

The ultra-traditionalist bishop had been told he had 10 days to leave the country. If Williamson refused to leave voluntarily, he would be forcibly deported, officials said. He could, however, still appeal the decision.

Under pressure from the Jewish community and other groups in Argentina, the government on Friday was tried to formally deliver expulsion documents to the Holocaust-denying Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson, but were uncertain of his whereabouts.

The Argentine Interior Ministry and the state organ in charge of immigration procedures said on Friday that they did not know where the bishop was. But they said they would officially notify him at the address he has declared as his permanent address, which would start the 10-day clock running for him to leave.

Williamson was among four members of the Society of St. Pius X bishops whose 1988 excommunication Pope Benedict XVI revoked last month. The move provoked worldwide furor in the Catholic and Jewish communities as well as in the German chancellery.



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