Cherish it and encourage him. What we have found is that the loneliest people on Monday are our Elders who teach on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so we make it a practice to “esteem them very highly in love for their works sake”.
It's a dual role thing. Fr. Brian is the superior (elected office) of a weenie little community of 3 friars in the eyes of the order, and in the eyes of the Diocese he and the O.P. generally are solving their problem of who's going to run the University Parish. In other words, the Diocese doesn't care as long as the parish is being taken care of.
But everyone knows Fr. B, is da Bomb, so scuttlebutt is they want to elect him to another responsibility.
The support I provide is mostly to remind him that if he's a friar I'm a roaster and I'm gonna roast him good. And he knows he can call on me for all sorts of stuff, and he does. I am also the official security weenie owing to my massive (not!) law enforcement experience, and I do that for free.