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intercommunion

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in·ter·com·mun·ion  (ntr-k-mynyn)
n.
1. Communion, relationship, or association between persons or groups.
2. The practice by which members of different Christian denominations can receive Communion at one another's Eucharistic services or at a common service.

intercommunion [ˌɪntəkəˈmjuːnjən]
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) association between Churches, involving esp mutual reception of Holy Communion
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Noun1.intercommunion - participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox)
Communion, Holy Communion, manduction, sacramental manduction - the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation"
Translations
intercommunion [ˌɪntəkəˈmjuːnɪən] Nintercomunión f
intercommunion
nBeziehungen pl


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Contacts with other denominations led to the 1931 Bonn Agreement, which established intercommunion between Anglican and Old-Catholic churches.
His lifelong and passional attachment to the land makes him unusually sensitive to corruptions that assail the earth's integrity and that impede the continuity, the intercommunion, and the unity of "spirituality, family, fertile land.
Despite a relatively far-reaching convergence with Lutherans and Anglicans regarding our understanding of the Eucharist, the Catholic Church so far has been very reluctant about the practice of intercommunion.
 
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