Willem Visser 't Hooft

Description: (Dutch Theologian Who Became the First Secretary General of the World Council of Churches)
Willem Visser 't Hooft served the World Council of Churches as its first secretary-general. The Dutch theologian and clergyman had also been the World Committee secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association. He emerged as a major figure of the ecumenical movement in the post-war era.

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Birthday September 20, 1900 (Virgo)
Died on July 4, 1985
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