William Hall Moreland

Moreland was born in Charleston, South Carolina on April 9, 1861 to Edward McCreight Moreland and Caroline Hall. He was educated at the Holy Communion Church Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, graduating in 1877. He then studied at the University of the South from where he earned a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Literature, and a Master of Arts in 1881. Later he attended the Berkeley Divinity School, graduating in 1884. He was also awarded a Doctor of Divinity from the University of the South in 1899 and Berkeley in 1900. On September 6, 1893, he married Harriet Elsie Slason and together had 6 children. [2]

Moreland was ordained deacon by Bishop John Williams of Connecticut in 1884, and priest on August 23, 1885 by Bishop William B. W. Howe of South Carolina. He initially served as assistant rector of Christ Church in Hartford, Connecticut between 1884 and 1885, and then rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Nashua, New Hampshire from 1885 to 1893. He was also rector of St Luke's Church in San Francisco from 1893 until 1899.[3]

In 1898 Moreland was elected Missionary Bishop of Sacramento and was consecrated on January 25, 1899 in St Luke's Church, San Francisco by Bishop William Ford Nichols of California. In 1910 the Missionary District of Sacramento was established as the Diocese of Sacramento. He retired in 1933.

Moreland died on October 27, 1946 at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles after a week's illness. [4]

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