Coadjutor - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Coadjutor, an assistant, helper, or ally: particularly a person appointed to assist a bishop, who from age of infirmity is unable to perform his duty: and see SUFFRAGAN....
Coadjutor
One who aids another an assistant a coworker...
Coadjutorship
The state or office of a coadjutor joint assistance...
Coadjutress
A female coadjutor or assistant...
Suffragan
Suffragan. Bishops are styled suffragan, a word signifying deputy, in respect of their relation to the archbishop of their province. But formerly each archbishop and bishop had also his suffragan to assist him in conferring orders, and in other spiritual parts of his office within his diocese. These are called suffragan bishops, and resemble the chorepiscopi, or bishops of the country, in the early times of the Christian Church. How this inferior order of bishops may be appointed and consecrated for twenty-five towns therein specified (including Thetford, Grantham, and Gloucester) is regulated by 26 Hen. 8, c. 14, which enacts that every archbishop and bishop disposed to have a suffragan should name to the king 'two honest and discreet spiritual persons, being learned and of good conversation,' and that each of them should request the king to appoint one of them. Notwithstanding this statute, it was not until very recent years, when the suffragans were appointed for a few of the specif...
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