Félix Torres Amat began his education in Humanities in his hometown and, in 1786, moved to Tarragona to study Philosophy and Theology at the literary academy associated with the University of Cervera, earning a doctorate in 1794.

After the collegiate church was dissolved on June 15, 1810, Torres Amat moved to Madrid, where he taught Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Mathematics at the Royal Studies of San Isidro for two years.

On January 21, 1819, he gave a funeral oration for Queen Maria Isabel of Braganza, praising the monarchy without exaggerating the sacredness of royal absolutism.

On May 1, 1834 he was ordained as the Bishop of Astorga,[1] and in the following year, he met William Harris Rule from Gibraltar as they both shared a common interest in distributing the Bible in people's first languages.

Apart from the translation of the Bible, his best-known work is Reports to help form a critical dictionary of Catalan writers and give some idea of the ancient and modern literature of Catalonia.