He was educated at the Holy Communion Church Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, graduating in 1877.

On September 6, 1893, he married Harriet Elsie Slason and together had 6 children.

[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.

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

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