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    Eucharist (redirect from Holy Communion)
    The Eucharist (/ˈjuːkərɪst/ YOO-kər-ist; from Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: evcharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving'), also known as Holy Communion, Blessed...
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    The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Formally founded in 1867 in London...
    79 KB (6,571 words) - 04:00, 2 June 2024
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    The communion of saints (Latin: commūniō sānctōrum, Ancient Greek: κοινωνίᾱ τῶν Ἁγῐ́ων, koinōníā tôn Hagíōn), when referred to persons, is the spiritual...
    28 KB (3,209 words) - 15:42, 21 April 2024
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    Closed communion is the practice of restricting the serving of the elements of Holy Communion (also called Eucharist, The Lord's Supper) to those who are...
    39 KB (4,610 words) - 06:18, 10 May 2024
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    communion with the pope during or following these schisms for a variety of historical circumstances. In the 16th century, the Reformation led to the formation...
    243 KB (26,142 words) - 03:57, 2 June 2024
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    gradually over two to three centuries following the Council of Chalcedon. Eventually the two communions developed separate institutions, and the Oriental Orthodox...
    39 KB (3,960 words) - 08:18, 2 June 2024
  • provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its primus inter...
    150 KB (18,275 words) - 00:21, 11 May 2024
  • Since the 1990s, the Anglican Communion has struggled with controversy regarding homosexuality in the church. In 1998, the 13th Lambeth Conference of Anglican...
    290 KB (28,921 words) - 03:12, 30 May 2024
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    baptised members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via local synods. The church has no central doctrinal...
    212 KB (22,204 words) - 02:52, 2 June 2024
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    The Episcopal Church (TEC), based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It...
    154 KB (16,655 words) - 13:14, 27 May 2024
  • in 1778 is in the past tense. The writer adds that he was a friend of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, poet, and belonged to the same communion. Bowden was therefore...
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    continued to confer confirmation before giving Communion to very young children. After the Fourth Lateran Council, Communion, which continued to be given...
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    Eastern Catholic Churches (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    broken communion. The Pope's recognition of Eastern Catholics who returned to communion has been a point of controversy in ecumenical relations with the Eastern...
    99 KB (10,021 words) - 21:08, 26 March 2024
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    may view same-sex relationships as immoral. Anglicanism (See Homosexuality and Anglicanism): Many of the provinces in the Anglican Communion do not permit...
    160 KB (16,709 words) - 03:16, 17 May 2024
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    the United States to formally endorse same-sex marriage. On the other hand, the Anglican Communion encountered discord that caused a rift between the...
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  • The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) is one of the four "Instruments of Communion" of the Anglican Communion. It was created by a resolution of the...
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    Ecumenism (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    the Anglican Province of America Worldwide, an estimated forty million Anglicans belong to churches that do not participate in the Anglican Communion...
    131 KB (15,960 words) - 20:43, 20 May 2024
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    The UU is in full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden; the Anglican Communion through the 1931 Bonn Agreement; the Philippine Independent...
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    elements is set aside and reserved after the reception of Communion and referred to as the reserved sacrament. The reserved sacrament is usually stored in...
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  • belonged to the Anglican Communion, are now in full communion with the Catholic Church, or who have received the sacraments of initiation within the jurisdiction...
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