noun /kəʊəˈdʒuːtə,kəʊˈædʒʊtə/
a) An assistant or helper.
The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.
b) An assistant to a bishop.
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
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