coadjutor
Example Sentences
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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
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
Untiring and energetic, she was a wonderful worker; Miss Senter, who had been much in Italy, appreciated her good-fortune in having secured for her Venetian house-keeping such a coadjutor as this.
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
