Editing Coadjutor bishop (section)

=== Right of succession ===
The 1983 [[1983 Code of Canon Law|Code of Canon Law]] of the Latin Church stipulates that all coadjutors have the right of succession. The code also allows the pope to appoint an auxiliary bishop to a diocese "with special faculties [powers]", but without the right of succession.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Code of Canon Law - Book II - The People of God - Part II. (Cann. 368-430) |url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib2-cann368-430_en.html |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=www.vatican.va}}</ref>

In 1986, [[Pope John Paul II]] appointed the Reverend [[Donald Wuerl]] as an auxiliary bishop in the [[Archdiocese of Seattle]] in Washington State in the United States with "special powers" to override Archbishop [[Raymond Hunthausen]]. The pope was unhappy with Hunthausen's handling of [[LGBTQ]] relations and other morality issues.<ref name=":1">{{cite thesis |last=Schilling |first=Timothy Peter |title=Conflict in the Catholic Hierarchy: A Study of Coping Strategies in the Hunthausen Affair, with Preferential Attention to Discursive Strategies |type=doctoral dissertation |publisher=Utrecht University |location=Utrecht, Netherlands |year=2003 |hdl=1874/601 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>

Under the old [[1917 Code of Canon Law]], the pope did not have to give an coadjutor ''cum jure succesionis'' ("with the right of succession").  In practice, the popes sometimes appointed coadjutors without the right of succession. These coadjutors usually served in large archdioceses.  They might hold other important posts within the Catholic Church, or might be auxiliary bishops that the pope wanted to honor with the title of coadjutor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE 1917 OR PIO-BENEDICTINE CODE OF CANON LAW |url=https://ia801605.us.archive.org/23/items/1917-or-pio-benedictine-code-of-canon/1917%20or%20Pio-Benedictine%20Code%20of%20Canon.pdf |access-date=January 27, 2025 |website=Ignatius Press}}</ref>

For example, [[Pope Paul VI]] in 1965 appointed Auxiliary Bishop [[John Maguire (coadjutor archbishop of New York)|John J. Maguire]] as coadjutor of the [[Archdiocese of New York]], one of the largest archdioceses in the United States, to assist Cardinal [[Francis Spellman]]. However, the pope denied Maguire the right of succession for when Spellman was no longer there.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archbishop John Joseph Maguire [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmaguirej.html |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}</ref>