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Francis J. Moore

Short Name: Francis J. Moore
Full Name: Moore, Francis John, 1885-1968
Birth Year: 1885
Death Year: 1968

Moore, Francis John. (Derby, England, August 27, 1885--August 17, 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio). Anglican. Durham, B.A., 1910; Trinity College, Toronto, B.D>, 1926; General Theological Seminary, S.T.D., 1956. He came to Canada in 1912 joining the staff of St. James' Cathedral, Toronto. Serves as a chaplain with the Canadian Army, 1915-1919, and directed the University of Toronto's Student Christian Association 1926-1931. Married Dora Mavor in 1923. In 1931 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, but his wife stayed in Toronto, where she had in 1930 set up a school for actors. On his retirement in 1957, he fittingly became chaplain of the Episcopal Actors' Guild.

--Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

In Cincinnati he was first curate of Christ Church and then, from 1938 to 1950, was rector of the Church of the Advent. From 1950 until 1957 he was editor of the Episcopal Church's Forward Movement Publications. He was the author of The Church in the Making, 1936. He received his D.D. from Kenyon College in 1947.

--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives


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