Bishop Verot High School, a private Catholic institution in Fort Myers, Florida, was named for Vérot in 1964.

[1] Vérot was ordained into the priesthood for the Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice by Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen on September 20, 1828.

Vérot taught for 23 years in science, philosophy, and theology at the St. Mary's College (founded 1791 in Downtown Baltimore, then located then in its first set (of two, later reconstructed in 1870s) of campus buildings on North Paca Street) and also at its attached theological seminary from 1830 to 1853 (later known and elevated as St. Mary's Seminary and University, greatly expanded when moved in 1929 to expansive Roland Park campus on Roland Avenue and West Northern Parkway / Belvedere Avenue in north Baltimore).

He was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Danabe on April 25, 1858, by Archbishop Francis Kenrick in the historic old Baltimore Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Cathedral Street (between West Franklin and West Mulberry Streets, built 1806–1826, and 1863, designed by famous architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1764–1820).

[4] While in Europe, Vérot also secured additional funding to repair churches further south in the recently admitted new state of Florida (1845) and old earlier Spanish colonial territory in St. Augustine, Jacksonville, and at the southern end of the peninsula in Key West.

He erected new churches on the west / Gulf of Mexico coast at Tampa, Fernandina Beach, Palatka, Mandarin, and Tallahassee, and staffed them with resident priests / pastors.

During the American Civil War Vérot condemned the looting of the Catholic church at Amelia Island, Florida, by Union Army troops.

[6] After the war, Vérot published a pastoral letter urging Catholics in the diocese to "put away all prejudice ...against their former servants".

[7] On March 11, 1870, Pius IX elevated the Florida vicarate into the Diocese of St. Augustine and named Vérot as its first bishop.