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

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

While still a lad he became successively bishop of Bremen, bishop of Verden and coadjutor of Halberstadt, while at the age of eighteen he was the chief commandant of the fortress of Stade.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various