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Holocaust-denying bishop back in U.K. after expelled from Argentina
By The Associated Press
Tags: Israel News, Holocaust 

A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust led Argentina to expel him arrived on Wednesday in London.

Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson returned after being ousted amid criticism that followed a television interview in which he asserted that no Jews were gassed during the Holocaust.

The statements embarrassed the Vatican at a time it has been trying to improve relations with Jews.
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Williamson's remarks drew attention because he is part of an ultraconservative society that Pope Benedict XVI was seeking to bring back under Vatican control.

The pope sought to heal a rift with the ultraconservatives earlier this year by lifting an excommunication decree on Williamson and other bishops consecrated without Vatican approval.


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