BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A Roman Catholic bishop whose denials that the Holocaust ever happened led to Vatican demands he recant has been removed as the head of an Argentine seminary, local media reported Sunday, citing a Catholic official.

The ultraconservative Society of St. Pius X has dismissed Bishop Richard Williamson as director of its seminary in La Reja, outside Buenos Aires, according to independent Argentine news agency Diarios y Noticias and the newspaper La Nacion.

The news outlets reported receiving a statement Sunday from the society’s South American superior, Father Christian Bouchacourt, announcing the British bishop’s removal. Seminary officials and Bouchacourt could not immediately be reached to confirm the reports.

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