Vigo Auguste Demant

Nationality

United Kingdom

Date of Birth

1893

Date of Death

1983

Political
Preference

Vigo Demant was an English Anglican priest and theologian. After studying theology in Oxford, he was ordained as a priest in 1920. Demant participated in the Life and Work Movement, an ecumenical movement that would contribute to the establishment of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 1948. In the context of these Life and Work conferences, most notably the 1937 Oxford ecumenical conference on ‘Church, Community and State’, he formed part of a discussion group known as the ‘Moot’. The ‘Moot’ was a group of church members and affiliates that was active from 1937 to 1949. The so-called Oldham group held several informal discussions and published articles in the Christian News-Letter, both of which Demant contributed to actively.