Douglas Coe (20 October 1928 – 17 February 2017) was an American Presbyterian elder and evangelical minister who, as the head of "The Fellowship" secret society, wielded enormous political influence in Washington DC from the 1970s to the 2010s.
Biography[]
Douglas Coe was born in Medford, Oregon in 1928, and he worked for a campus youth ministry in Salem before being mentored by Billy Graham. Coe went on to become a Presbyterian elder and evangelical minister, and he became Abraham Vereide's aide-de-camp within "The Fellowship", a conservative secret society. He later succeeded Vereide as its leader, taking part in meetings with foreign leaders such as Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Joseph Kabila, and Paul Kagame. Coe spread the belief that people of all cultures, religions, and backgrounds could come to know and live by Jesus' teachings, noting that communists, atheists, Hindus, and Muslims across the world also agreed with his teachings. Coe died in Annapolis, Maryland in 2017 at the age of 88.