Coadjutor

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.

It describes:

See also

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