The term "coadjutor" (literally "co-assister" in
Latin
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) is a title qualifier indicating that the holder shares the office with another person, with powers equal to the other in all but formal
order of precedence
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.
These include:
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Coadjutor bishop
A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) ("co-assister" in Latin) is a bishop in the Latin Catholic, Anglican and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in administering the diocese.
The coa ...
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Coadjutor archbishop
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Coadjutor vicar, or
Coadjutor apostolic vicar
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Coadjutor eparch, or
Coadjutor archeparch
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Coadjutor exarch, or
Coadjutor apostolic exarch
Overview
The office is ancient. "Coadjutor", in the 1883 ''Catholic Dictionary'', says:
Another source identifies three kinds of coadjutors:
:(1) Temporal and revocable.
:(2) Perpetual and irrevocable.
:(3) Perpetual, with the right of future succession.
[''The Law of the Church: A Cyclopedia of Canon Law for English-speaking Countries'', Ethelred Luke Taunton, 1906, page 204.]
It describes:
See also
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Bishop (disambiguation)
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Vicar (disambiguation)
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Exarch (disambiguation)
References
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