Coadjutor

 ( Bishops By Type ) 

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

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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:

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See also

• Bishop (disambiguation)
• Vicar (disambiguation)
• Exarch (disambiguation)

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