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 Michigan bishop, Bernard A. Hebda, to be coadjutor archbishop in Newark.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2017

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

When a young priest first arrived in the Philippines, he was sent as a coadjutor to some parish priest to learn the dialect of the people he is to work amongst.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.