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British bishop sacked over Holocaust claims

The British bishop who caused outrage and sparked a public relations disaster for the Vatican by denying the extent of the Holocaust has been sacked as head of an Argentinian church.

Richard Williamson, who at the weekend defied the Pope's demand that he recant his views, was forced out as director of the seminary in Argentina by the breakaway Catholic faction of which he is a member, the Society of St. Pius X.

The Cambridge-educated cleric attracted global condemnation last month when he publicly dismissed the fact that the Nazis used gas chambers and insisted that rather than murdering six million Jews, they killed at most 300,000.

The society's South America head, Father Christian Bouchacourt, called Williamson's remarks "inopportune".

Read entire article at Telegraph(UK)