He served as a priest in the parish of Saints Peter and Paul in Piraeus and engaged in the ecumenical movement with the Greek Orthodox Church.
In 1962 he was named by Pope John XXIII as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Corfu, Kefalonia and Zakynthos.
The episcopal ordination was done by Venediktos Printesis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens.
Pope John Paul II in 1992 named him the first Apostolic Vicar of Thessaloniki.
[citation needed] In 2003 his resignation was accepted by John Paul II.