 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, and during this period completed his thesis "Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century" for a doctorate of divinity (Cambridge University, 1945).In 1945 he went to Lanercost Priory and in 1946 re-opened Chichester Theological College.