John Richard Humpidge Moorman, (4 June 1905 – 13 January 1989) was an English divine, ecumenist and writer who was Bishop of Ripon from 1959 to 1975.
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.
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.