John Richard Humpidge Moorman, (born Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 4 June 1905; died Durham, England, 13 January 1989) was an English divine, ecumenist and writer who was Bishop of Ripon from 1959 to 1975.
Early life and education
Born in Leeds, the son of Frederic William Moorman (1872–1918), Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds, and his wife Frances Beatrice Humpidge (1867–1956), Moorman was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He later gained the degree of Bachelor of Divinity (BD) in 1940 with his work The Sources for the Life of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Ecclesiastical career
In 1929 Moorman was ordained and became a curate, first in Holbeck, Leeds and later in Leighton Buzzard. In 1935 he was appointed Rector of Fallowfield in Manchester.
During the Second World War Moorman resigned his living and worked as a farmhand in Wharfedale. During this period completed his thesis Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century for the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) awarded by the University of Cambridge in 1945.
