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 2014, the pope reassigned the coadjutor archbishop, Bernard A. Hebda, to another trouble spot, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

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

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 Woolson, Constance Fenimore