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    Eucharist (redirect from Holy Communion)
    εὐχαριστία, romanized: evcharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving'), also known as Holy Communion, Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is...
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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...
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    denominating those in communion with the Holy See after the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, when those who ceased to be in communion became known as...
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    church, with approximately 230 million baptised members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via local synods...
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    Dialogue to Symbolic Competence for Communionality. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-4023-3. Howard C. Kee et al., Christianity: a Social and Cultural...
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    claims continuity with the historical Church of the East, and it is not in communion with either the Oriental Orthodox Churches or the Eastern Orthodox Church...
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    priests from their parishes, replacing them with priests willing to give communion in both wine and bread. The chalice of wine became the central identifying...
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    2009 in the hope of speedily reaching "full reconciliation and complete communion". The society's canonical situation remains unresolved. The 2010s saw...
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    was betrayed). From this moment of consecration to the ablution after communion, the priest does not separate the thumb and index finger in order to avoid...
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  • Churches, the Methodist Churches, the Presbyterian Churches, the Anglican Communion, and by members of the Reformed Churches, although they interpret it in...
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