coadjutor
Americannoun
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an assistant.
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an assistant to a bishop or other ecclesiastic.
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a bishop who assists another bishop, with the right of succession.
noun
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a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop
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rare an assistant
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Etymology
Origin of coadjutor
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin, equivalent to co- co- + adjūtor helper ( adjū- base of adjuvāre to help ( cf. adjutant) + -tor -tor )
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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
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
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 Tremayne, Eleanor E.
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