One group of traditional Anglicans – don’t know how they fit into the big Anglican picture.

The Traditional Anglican Communion is a small step closer to reestablishing unity with the Roman Catholic Church after a separation of five centuries.

Leaders of the Anglican Church in America, one of the 44 national churches in the conservative body, were in Portland this week considering a plan to begin formal conversations with the Roman Catholic Church about establishing intercommunion.

"It is a quest of being a single Eucharistic community," said Archbishop John Hepworth, the spiritual head of the Traditional Anglican Communion. "It would mean Roman Catholic people could receive communion in our churches and we could receive it in theirs."

Portland was chosen as the site for the meeting of the House of Bishops, which brings together bishops from national churches from North and South America and the Caribbean every three years. That meeting preceded others, including one for leaders of the American church and church leaders from New England and New York.

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