intercommunion

American  

[in-ter-kuh-myoon-yuhn] / ˌɪn tər kəˈmyun yən /

noun

1. mutual communion, association, or relations.

2. Ecclesiastical. a communion service among members of different denominations.

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intercommunion British  

/ ˌɪntəkəˈmjuːnjən /

noun

1. association between Churches, involving esp mutual reception of Holy Communion

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Etymology

Origin of intercommunion

First recorded in 1755–65; inter- + communion

Example Sentences

As for the Protestants, Methodist Theologian J. Robert Nelson of Boston University thinks intercommunion should be achievable within a decade, at least with Anglicans and Lutherans, if the new Pope is willing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make intercommunion a means to Christian unity rather than its goal."

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the Canterbury-York report on recommending intercommunion: "We consider that there are no longer any grounds for hesitancy in accepting as valid in intention the consecrations and ordinations of the Church of South India."

From Time Magazine Archive

They were also hopeful that a joint statement produced last year by the council's theology commission might provide the eventual basis for intercommunion.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Australian philosophy of the intercommunion of Nature goes still farther than this.

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew