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

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

Hebda’s new appointment, Bellitto said, was truly shocking because he had been name coadjutor in Newark.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2016

“Learning perished where Luther reigned,” said Erasmus, and in proof of it we find the Reformer agreeing with his coadjutor, Melanchthon, in permitting no tampering with the written Word.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward