Richard Channing Moore (1762–1841)
Bushrod Washington was among those who recruited Moore to minister in Virginia.
Richard Channing Moore was born in New York City on 21 August 1762. After a short career as a physician, he studied for the Episcopal ministry and was ordained. He then served as rector at Saint Andrew’s Church in Staten Island and at Saint Stephen’s Church in Manhattan. Moore’s success in the latter post prompted prominent Virginia communicants to recruit him for service in that state. Accordingly, in 1814 Moore was elected bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, prompting his relocation to Richmond.
"Enclosure: Richard Channing Moore to David Hosack, 20 October 1806," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0078-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 10, May 1816 to 18 January 1817, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 150–151.]
William Archer Rutherford Goodwin, The Right Reverend Richard Channing Moore, D. D., Second Bishop of Virginia, and the Beginnings of the Theological Seminary in Virginia; an Address Delivered at the Alumni Meeting of the Virginia Theological Seminary, on June 4th, 1914 (Virginia Theological Seminary Alumni Association, 1914).
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