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Definition of coadjutor
1 : one who works together with another : assistant
2 : a bishop assisting a diocesan bishop and often having the right of succession
coadjutor
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Examples of coadjutor in a Sentence
he was appointed coadjutor to the president
Recent Examples of coadjutor from the Web
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But in 2013, the pope reassigned Bishop Hebda to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and Francis did not name a new coadjutor archbishop for Newark.
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In 2013, the pope named a Michigan bishop, Bernard A. Hebda, to be coadjutor archbishop in Newark.
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Origin and Etymology of coadjutor
Middle English coadjutour, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin coadjutor, from Latin co- + adjutor helper, from adjuvare to help — more at aid
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