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. (1) Temporal and revocable.

2. (2) Perpetual and irrevocable.

3. (3) Perpetual, with the right of future succession.

It describes:

See also

• Bishop (disambiguation)

• Vicar (disambiguation)

• Exarch (disambiguation)

References