[1] From 1967, when he returned from Italy, until his death, he served as professor of liturgy at the Theology in the University of Rijeka.
From 1973 to 1976, he was the parish priest in Punat, and from 1976 to 1979, he served as rector of the Major Theological Seminary in Rijeka.
[1] On February 5, 1986, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as a diocesan bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Šibenik.
On March 16, 1986, he was consecrated as bishop by Cardinal Franjo Kuharić and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik.
[1] Archbishop Tamarut died on June 28, 2000, of a stroke in a hospital in Rijeka, where he was admitted the day before.