[1] His grandfather was Francisco Pellicer, a Menorcan carpenter who came to Florida as a member of Andrew Turnbull's colony at New Smyrna but later led the rebellion against him.

[1] He and Manucy studied for the priesthood together at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and both were ordained on August 15, 1850, by Bishop Michael Portier.

[2] He served as a Confederate Army chaplain during the Civil War, and was later named rector of Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Mobile (1865) and vicar general of the diocese (1867).

Just as they were ordained priests together, Pellicer and Manucy both received their episcopal consecration on December 8, 1874, from Archbishop Napoléon-Joseph Perché at the cathedral in Mobile.

[1] During his first year as bishop, Pellicer reported there were 30,000 Catholics in the diocese served by 34 priests, 41 churches, 18 parochial schools, one seminary, one college, and one orphanage.