 He was President of the Methodist Conference in 1804 and 1823.Moore rejected ordainment in the Church of England, although he accepted it from Wesley assisted by two Episcopal clergymen; opposed Thomas Coke's Lichfield scheme of 1794 for the creation of a Methodist hierarchy and also the proposal brought forward in 1834 for the establishment of a theological school; and on the formation of a centenary fund in 1839 objected to the acquisition of land by the Methodist body.In conjunction with Coke, and under the authority of the conference, Moore published a "Life of the Rev.