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 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:
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Coadjutor vicar, or
Coadjutor apostolic vicar
An apostolic vicariate is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church under a titular bishop centered in missionary regions and countries where dioceses or parishes have not yet been established. The status of apostolic vicariate is often ...
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Coadjutor eparch
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Coadjutor archeparch
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Coadjutor exarch, or
Coadjutor apostolic exarch
An exarch (;
from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος ''exarchos'') was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.
In the late Roman Empire and early Byzantine Empire, ...
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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Vicar or vicarius, may also refer to:
Political history
* Vicar (Roman Empire), an imperial regional governor in the ancient Roman Empire
* Imperial vicar (Holy R ...
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Exarch (disambiguation)
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