Coadjutor

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kəʊəˈdÊ’uːtÉ™/, /kəʊˈadÊ’ÊŠtÉ™/

Origin

From Old French coadjuteur, from Latin coadiūtor, from co- + adiūtor ("helper").

Full definition of coadjutor

Noun

1. An assistant or helper.
• 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 206-7:The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.
2. (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
• 1842 John Henry Newman - The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem
• 2005 James Martin Estes - Peace, Order and the Glory of God:August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.