coadjutor

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The Most Reverend Richard G. Henning is the new coadjutor bishop of Providence with a right of succession.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Soon after he arrived at the Diocese of Newark in 1976 as bishop coadjutor, a steppingstone to bishop, the diocese became one of the first to ordain women to the priesthood.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2021

In 2013, the pope named a coadjutor archbishop who would have succeeded Archbishop Myers automatically when he turned 75.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2016

He was appointed as coadjutor archbishop of Armagh in January 2013 and ordained in April 2013.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2014

Well, that Marplot was well out of the road, and the abb� was pleased to be quit of so deceitful a coadjutor.

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis