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

"Full agreement in doctrine is not needed before some measure of intercommunion is allowed," noted Carter, who urged greater development of joint Protestant-Catholic services.

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

Last week the zealous and professorial Archbishop traveled to Rome for his first meeting with Pope Paul VI and made an unexpected and dramatic bid for Anglican and Roman Catholic intercommunion.

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

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“All that night,” says Mary, “we were detained in captivity within our chamber, and not permitted to have intercommunion scarcely with our servant-women.”

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford