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Cleto Bellucci

Bellucci was appointed Coadjutor bishop to the Archdiocese of Fermo on July 9, 1973, and succeeded Norberto Perini after his retirement on June 21, 1976.

Laurence York

York was appointed coadjutor to Matthew Pritchard, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District on 13 May 1741, and consecrated the Titular Bishop of Nebbi (Bishop of Nisibis in Mesopotamia) on 10 August 1741.

Lorenzo Bianchi

He was appointed as coadjutor bishop of Hong Kong on 21 April 1949 and was consecrated titular bishop of Choma on 9 October 1949 and returned to Hoi Fung.

Mariano Simon Garriga

On June 20, 1936, Garriga was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Corpus Christi and Titular Bishop of Syene by Pope Pius XI.

Michael John Sheridan

Sheridan was named Coadjutor Bishop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, on December 4, 2001, later succeeding as Richard Hanifen as the second Bishop of Colorado Springs upon the latter's resignation on January 30, 2003.

Michał Jerzy Poniatowski

Prince Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, born Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (October 12, 1736 – August 12, 1794) was a Polish nobleman, abbot of Tyniec and Czerwińsk, Bishop of Płock and Coadjutor Bishop of Kraków from 1773, and Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland from 1784.


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Dominic Laurence Graessel

On December 8, 1793, Pope Pius VI confirmed Graessel coadjutor bishop and titular bishop of 'Samosata,' not knowing Graessel had died.

Murray Chatlain

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Chatlain as coadjutor bishop of Mackenzie-Fort Smith in June 2007.

Nelson Fogarty

When the missionary Diocese of Damaraland was formed in 1924, he was chosen to be its first bishop, and consecrated as such in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town on Quinquagesima Sunday, 2 March 1924 by the Archbishop of Cape Town, assisted by the Bishops of George, Bloemfontein, and St. John’s, Kaffraria, as well as the Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town, and Bishop Gaul.

Robert Brom

On Wednesday, January 4, 2012, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, announced that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Auxiliary Bishop Cirilo Flores of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange as the Coadjutor Bishop to Bishop Brom in the Diocese of San Diego.

Ultrajectine

After Codde, another bishop who played an important part was Dominique-Marie Varlet, who had been appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Babylon by the Pope after having been Vicar general to the Diocese of Quebec (Canada), but who instead chose to spend his time in the Netherlands succouring the Jansenists and making appeals to Rome in order that it should reconsider its disciplinary actions against him.