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 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 Eleanor E. Tremayne