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 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

At major interfaith meetings, intercommunion could be allowed even when union was not in sight.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Bavaria, about 1400, all the more powerful places were in firm intercommunion.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav