Arthur James Moore - Episcopal Ministry

Episcopal Ministry

The Rev. Dr. Arthur James Moore was elected and consecrated to the Episcopacy of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South at the 1930 General Conference of that denomination. Bishop Moore was assigned responsibility for all missionary activities of the MECS in China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Poland and Korea, until 1940. In 1940 he was assigned the Atlanta Episcopal Area of the (newly reunited) Methodist Church. His address was 63 Auburn Ave., N.E., Atlanta.

Bishop Moore also served as President of Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia in 1941, and as Chairman of the Board. He was a member of the Committee on Interdenominational Relations and Church Union of the MECS (1934-39), and President of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church. He was also the organizer and first President of the Board of Evangelism of The Methodist Church.

Bishop Moore died 30 June 1974.