Word.ws English Dictionary

coadjutor bishop

coadjutor bishop noun: an auxiliary bishop with the right of succession, i.e., he becomes bishop upon the death, removal or retirement of the incumbent bishop.

Noun

coadjutor bishop (plural coadjutor bishops)

  1. An auxiliary bishop with the right of succession, i.e., he becomes bishop upon the death, removal or retirement of the incumbent bishop.
    • The bishop [...] encouraged his flock to bully this brilliant stranger into being ordained priest and soon Augustine was coadjutor (assistant) bishop in the town.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 304

Forms of coadjutor bishop

pluralcoadjutor bishops

Questions about coadjutor bishop

What does coadjutor bishop mean?
Coadjutor bishop means an auxiliary bishop with the right of succession, i.e., he becomes bishop upon the death, removal or retirement of the incumbent bishop.
What part of speech is coadjutor bishop?
Coadjutor bishop is a noun.
What is the plural of coadjutor bishop?
The plural of coadjutor bishop is coadjutor bishops.

Words near coadjutor bishop in the dictionary

  1. coadjuted
  2. coadjutes
  3. coadjuting
  4. coadjutive
  5. coadjutor
  6. coadjutor bishop
  7. coadjutor bishops
  8. coadjutors
  9. coadjutorship
  10. coadjutorships
  11. coadjutress

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coadjutor bishop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “coadjutor bishop.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/coadjutor_bishop. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.