John Moore (archbishop of Canterbury)
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The Most Reverend and Right Honourable John Moore |
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| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
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| Church | Church of England |
| Province | Province of Canterbury |
| Diocese | Diocese of Canterbury |
| Elected | 26 April 1783 (confirmation of election) |
| Term ended | 18 January 1805 (death) |
| Predecessor | The Hon Frederick Cornwallis |
| Successor | Charles Manners-Sutton |
| Other posts |
Dean of Canterbury (1771–1775) Bishop of Bangor (1774–1783) |
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26 April 1730 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England |
| Died | 18 January 1805 (aged 74) Lambeth, Surrey, England |
| Buried | St Mary-at-Lambeth |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Ordination history of John Moore | |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Frederick Cornwallis (Canterbury) |
| Co-consecrators |
Edmund Keene (Ely) Robert Lowth (Oxford) John Thomas (Rochester) |
| Date of consecration | 12 February 1775 |
| Place of consecration | Lambeth Palace Chapel |
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John Moore (26 April 1730 – 18 January 1805) was Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.
Moore was the son of Thomas Moore, butcher, and his wife Elizabeth. He was born in Gloucester and was baptised in St. Michael's Church, Gloucester, on 13 January 1729-30. He was educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester. He was a student at Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculated 1745; BA 1748; MA 1751).
Having taken holy orders, he was for some years tutor to Lords Charles and Robert Spencer, younger sons of the second Duke of Marlborough. On 21 September 1761, he was preferred to the fifth prebendal stall in the church of Durham, and in April 1763, to a canonry at Christ Church, Oxford. On 1 July 1764, he took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. On 19 September 1771, he was made dean of Canterbury, and on 10 February 1775, bishop of Bangor.
On the death of Archbishop Frederick Cornwallis, he was translated to the see of Canterbury, 26 April 1783, on the joint recommendation of Bishops Robert Lowth and Richard Hurd, both of whom had declined the primacy. Though not a great ecclesiastic, Moore was an amiable and worthy prelate, a competent administrator, and a promoter of the Sunday-school movement and of missionary enterprise. He appears to have dispensed his patronage with somewhat more than due regard to the interests of his own family.
He died at Lambeth Palace on 18 January 1805, and was buried in Lambeth parish church.
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