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coadjutor

[koh-aj-uh-ter, koh-uh-joo-ter] / koʊˈædʒ ə tər, ˌkoʊ əˈdʒu tər /


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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

Before he was consecrated bishop coadjutor, Bishop Spong served for 20 years as a priest in North Carolina and Virginia.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021

In 2013, the pope named a Michigan bishop, Bernard A. Hebda, to be coadjutor archbishop in Newark.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2017

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

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2014

He wishes to be nominated coadjutor of the Sovereign Pontiff, so as 'to be assured of having the Papacy and becoming a priest and afterwards made holy.'

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne


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