Word: intercommunion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report of such import for the church being accepted with so little argument," said a stunned Anglican canon last week. The Convocations of Canterbury and York, traditional arbiters of all doctrinal matters in the Church of England, had just accepted, with little dispute, a report recommending extension of "limited intercommunion" with the Church of South India. The argument was not long in coming, and with it the threat of a schism in the Anglican Church...
...claims that its bishops are successors of Christ's apostles, insisted that all ordinations after the union be performed by Episcopal bishops, but agreed that no reordination would be required of those who had already been ordained in non-Episcopal churches. 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...
Nobody really expected that it would come to that, especially since the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of Anglican orders. In any case, intercommunion at present allows members of the Church of South India only limited privileges and local bishops may use their discretion in granting even these. The question of full intercommunion is not expected to become a serious question for about two decades...