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
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 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
He was appointed as coadjutor archbishop of Armagh in January 2013 and ordained in April 2013.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2014
He then offered to resign his office, but the pope refused and gave him a coadjutor, whereupon the archbishop retired into a cloister where he died in his eighty-third year.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
