Interim Bodies
A broad term for commissions, committees, task forces, boards, and agencies that are active between the triennial General Conventions.
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Glossary
An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church
Glossary definitions adapted from An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians, edited by Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, provided courtesy of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY.
Interment
Burial, the placing of the body or cremated remains of a deceased person in a grave or columbarium. From the Latin in terra meaning “in the earth.”
Intinction
Administration of the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist at the same time, typically by dipping the bread in the wine and placing the moistened host in the mouth.
Introit
A hymn, psalm, or anthem that is sung as the ministers enter to begin the Eucharist.
Irenaeus of Lyons
A second-century Greek bishop and theologian. Feast day: June 28.