coadjutor bishop

However, unlike most coadjutor bishops, Maguire did not possess the automatic right of succession.

Coadjutor bishops (who did not become diocesan bishop)

That same year Dubourg addressed the issue of the appointment of coadjutor bishops to assist in his large diocese.

This is a rare appointment as normally Coadjutor Bishops are usually appointed to dioceses where the ordinary is less than the retirement age.

These two were coadjutor bishops of, respectively, Bishop Dicconson and Bishop Challoner.

All office holders must be diocesean ordinaries; coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, and bishops emeriti may not be elected.

These are to be distinguished from suffragan bishops, assistant bishops, coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, metropolitans, and primates.

At one time coadjutor bishops and archbishops were given titular sees, but they are now raised to the diocese or archdiocese that they will oversee as coadjutor.

Prior to the formation of the current "regions" arrangement in around 1967, the archbishop was assisted by a number of coadjutor bishops with no particular geographical area (nor expectation to succeed to the diocesan see).

Vicars general must be priests, auxiliary bishops, or coadjutor bishops -if a coadjutor bishop exists for a diocese, the diocesan bishop is to appoint him as a vicar general.

Typically, they consist of archbishops and/or Primates, diocesan bishops and sometimes suffragan and coadjutor bishops (who may, in turn, be elected as a fixed number, as happens in the Church of England).

It has fallen into disuse, and its duties are now part of the work of such officials as the auxiliary and/or coadjutor bishops, the vicar general, the episcopal vicar, and the vicar forane/dean/archpriest.

Other bishops may be appointed to assist ordinaries (auxiliary bishops and coadjutor bishops) or to carry out a function in a broader field of service to the Church, such as appointments as papal nuncios or as officials in the Roman Curia.

Members of the Slovak Bishops 'Conference as well as Diocesan Bishops and their rights under par for the position, and coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops of the Byzantine rite in the Slovak Republic belonging to another Bishops' Conference.

All diocesan bishops in Brazil belong to CNBB along with coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops and other titular Bishops who exercise in the same territory a special charge, entrusted by the Apostolic See or by the Conference of Bishops.

Examples of bishops belonging to this category are coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops, bishops emeriti, vicars apostolic, nuncios, superiors of departments in the Roman Curia, and cardinal bishops of suburbicarian dioceses (since they are not in charge of the suburbicarian dioceses).