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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Auxiliary Bishop |
 | | Coadjutors are given to diocesans impeded from performance of their episcopal duties by old age, or bodily infirmity, or sickness, protracted and incurable, such as loss of speech, blindness, paralysis, and insanity. |
 | | Coadjutors are also temporary and perpetual; the first has no succession, the latter has, and is called coadjutor with right of succession. |
 | | Coadjutors with right of succession rarely are granted, and only when urgent necessity and an evident utility are superadded to the above reasons; and then they must be made known to, and approved as such, by the pope. |
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