Pereira was born in 1845,[1] educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1869.

[2] He served two curacies[3] before becoming the first Warden of the Wilberforce Memorial Mission in South London.

[5] He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul 1904 (25 January), at Westminster Abbey by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.

[6] As an endowment, he was also appointed to All Hallows Lombard Street in the same year;[7] when he resigned his See in 1924,[8] he retained the benefice of Lombard-Street until death.

[9] "A man of great energy and a most effective speaker",[10] he died on New Year's Day, 1926.