[2] His assignments have included postings as parish vicar and then parish priest of São João Baptista di Lobita in the Diocese of Benguela and a member of the presbyteral council of the that diocese from 1996 to 2000; counsellor of the Spiritans in Angola from 1997 to 2004; parish priest of São Pedro Apóstolo in Luanda from 2000 to 2016; episcopal vicar for social pastoral care for the Archdiocese of Luanda from 2001 to 2009; a member of the presbyteral council of that archdiocese from 2002 to 2003; first counsellor of Spiritans in Angola from 2004 to 2013; secretary of the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace of the Conference of Bishop of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST) from 2010 to 2014; episcopal vicar of the Vicariate of São Pedro from 2010 to 2018; a member of the ecclesiastical court of the archdiocese of Luanda from 2013 to 2018; and provincial superior of the Spiritans in Angola from 2016 to 2018.

[2] In 2009, he was named, as secretary of the CEAST Commission for Justice and Peace, an expert participant for the Synod of Bishops on Africa that met in the Vatican in October.

[7] Assessing his challenges in May 2021 on the 25th anniversary of his ordination, he said:[6] The Church must not be afraid to get her hands dirty to defend her brothers and, at the same time, must be interventionist, not only in terms of evangelization, but also in social commitment.He emphasized the need to move forward on local development projects and minimizing the use of non-local labor, for local educational institutions, and for rural development to counteract migration to the cities.

In October 2021, he recommended the government declare a food emergency in the drought-affected southern part of Angola to allow international aid into the region.

[9] In January 2022, he urged government leaders to meet with protesters and use dialog to address demand for youth employment and avert increasingly radical social conflict.