[1][2] He was ordained a priest of the Consolata Missionaries on 9 February 1957, in Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia, United States by Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia.
[1][2] On 19 June 1981 The Holy Father John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Marsabit, Kenya.
His doctors gave him one month to recover from the heart operation before they could fix the broken hip.
He was moved to Consolata Missionaries Regional House in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city.
[1][2][3] On 6 November 2006, he was buried at the Maria Mfariji (Mary the Consoler) Shrine in Marsabit, as he had willed.