The term "coadjutor" (literally "co-assister" in Latin) 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.
These include:
Coadjutor bishop, or Coadjutor archbishop Coadjutor vicar, or Coadjutor apostolic vicar Coadjutor eparch, or Coadjutor archeparch 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 Bishop (disambiguation) Vicar (disambiguation) Exarch (disambiguation)
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