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: