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

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

But in 2013, the pope reassigned Bishop Hebda to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and Francis did not name a new coadjutor archbishop for Newark.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2017

Reese added that, because the pope appointed a coadjutor to Newark in the first place, it seems “highly unlikely” Myers will be allowed to stay in place long after turning 75.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2016

He became first the coadjutor, afterwards the successor, of his father, in the bishopric of Nazianzen, but removed thence to Constantinople, where he preached against the Arians.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.