intercommunion
- n participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox)
- Ecumenically minded parishes countenanced intercommunion with Protestants.
- Said one Russian delegate: "Such a revolutionary novelty as intercommunion would amount to a betrayal of truth as we see it.
- Yet there was no further mention of intercommunion, and the prelates noted "serious obstacles both of the past and of recent origin.