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 2014, the pope reassigned the coadjutor archbishop, Bernard A. Hebda, to another trouble spot, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2016

Hebda’s new appointment, Bellitto said, was truly shocking because he had been name coadjutor in Newark.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2016

When a young priest first arrived in the Philippines, he was sent as a coadjutor to some parish priest to learn the dialect of the people he is to work amongst.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.