In 1943, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California in 1946 from the General Theological Seminary.
He was ordained deacon in June 1946 and served as assistant in St Paul's Church in San Diego, California.
He was ordained priest on December 16, 1946, by Bishop W. Bertrand Stevens of Los Angeles in St Paul's Church.
On June 4, 1977, he ordained the first three female priests of the diocese, the Reverends Judith Burrows, Sarah Rieth and Patricia Bird.
He died due to Leukemia on May 5, 1994, at the Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey.