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Richard C. Moore was born on August 21, 1762, in in New York City, one of twelve children of Thomas Moore, II and Elizabeth Channing. His grandfather, John Moore, II, son of John Moore, c. 1659 - 1732, had attained wealth and eminence, being an alderman, a member of the colonial legislature, and of the King's council for the province.
Moore received a good classical training under Alexander Leslie, professor of languages in King's College; but the Revolutionary War, which ruined his father's business and caused the removal of the family to West Point, interrupted his education.
After a brief trial of sea-faring life, he settled down to the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Richard Bayley, an eminent New York physician. He practised for a short period in that city, and later in the eastern part of Long Island.
Then his mind became deeply exercised on the subject of religion, and he finally decided to enter the church. After preparation under Bishop Samuel Provoost, he was by him ordained deacon at St. George's Chapel, New York, in July 1787, and was admitted to priest's orders the following September.
For about two years he was in charge of Grace Church, Rye, New York, and then became rector of St. Andrew's parish, Staten Island. Here for more than twenty years he had a fruitful ministry, eking out his slender salary at the start by continuing to practise medicine, and from 1793 to 1802 by conducting a school. He was one of the deputies representing the diocess of New York at the General Convention, held in Baltimore in May 1808, where he was chairman of the committee which selected additional hymns for the use of the churches.
In 1809, leaving his son David as his successor at Staten Island, he became rector of St. Stephen's, New York.
After five years' service here, marked by notable success, in 1814 he was called to the rectorship of the Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia, and to the episcopate of that state. On May 18, at St. James's Church, Philadelphia, he was consecrated bishop. Owing to the effects of the Revolution, the outgoing of the Methodists, the secularization of the clergy, and a lack of effective leadership, the Episcopal Church in the South was in a prostrate condition. Parishes were impoverished and vacant, priests were few, and apathy and discouragement prevailed. Bishop Moore was ideally adapted to the needs of the situation. He was a man of distinguished ancestry, well-bred, and possessed of social qualities which made him everywhere acceptable. He was a speaker of magnetism and persuasiveness. He could exercise discipline with tact and kindliness. Although loyal to his own church, he was broad-minded, charitable, and disinclined to controversy. More important still, he was a man of deep and sincere piety, zealously devoted to the salvation of souls and the spiritual edification of his people. While warmly attached to the constituted ministry and government of the church and careful to keep enthusiasm within proper bounds, he was strongly evangelical, upholding prayer meetings, lecture-room services, and revivals. He did not escape opposition, but regard for him steadily grew, and under the sway of his wisdom and goodness the diocese began to revive. Discipline was restored, churches were reestablished, the number of clergy increased, and the Virginia Theological Seminary, at Alexandria, was founded.
After 1829 he was assisted by a coadjutor, Bishop William Meade. Together with Bishops John Henry Hobart and Alexander V. Griswold he is credited with reconstructing the Episcopal Church in the United States, both in spirit and in character. After having directed the affairs of the diocese for twenty-seven years, he died on November 11, 1841, while on a visitation to Lynchburg, and was buried in Richmond.
Called to be Bishop of the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Virginia in a critical period of the Church's history, Richard Channing Moore brought selfless dedication and a charismatic style to the weakened Church. From 1814 until his death in 1841 in Lynchburg where he was visiting his parishes he tirelessly worked to build a strong Diocese.
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At the age of twenty-two Richard C. Moore married Christian Jones of New York, by whom he had five children.
On April 20, 1796, his wife died, and on March 23, 1797, he married Sarah Mersereau. The couple had six children.
