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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

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

Errington was Cardinal Wiseman's coadjutor with right of succession, but was arbitrarily deprived of the post by the Pope, on his declining to resign it.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von