BUENOS AIRES (AFP)- Argentina has ordered the expulsion of a conservative British bishop who has denied the Holocaust, giving him ten days to leave the country, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.

Bishop Richard Williamson has been at the center of a raging controversy over his statements last month, just before Pope Benedict XVI was to lift his ex-communication, that the Nazis did not use gas chambers to kill Jews during World War II.

Argentina's Interior Minister Florencio Randazo announced that the national immigration office had told Williamson to leave the country in 10 days "in the awareness that his expulsion has been decreed."