The community later merged with a second local Anglican ordinariate group to form St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania.
After serving parishes in the Dioceses of New York, Albany, and Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, he became rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania) in 1989, a post he held until 2011.
He was also the episcopal visitor for the TAC in England and the American commissary of the Diocese of The Murray in Australia.
At that time, a majority of the congregation left with him to form the group that is now part of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.
In 2012, his petition to enter the Catholic Church as an ordained minister was accepted by the Vatican (The Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, i.e. Nulla Osta) but he did not receive local ecclesial approval, the Votum[1] In 2014, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church as a layman.