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

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

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

“Learning perished where Luther reigned,” said Erasmus, and in proof of it we find the Reformer agreeing with his coadjutor, Melanchthon, in permitting no tampering with the written Word.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward