In 1962 he left the West Indies for St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where he earned a diploma in Adult Education in 1963.

He was principal of the Roman Catholic High School in Dominica from 1972 to 1975 and associate general secretary of the Caribbean Conference of Churches from 1975 to 1981.

[2] On 12 April 2006, Felix was attacked and grabbed on the neck by a man with a knife, as soon as he finished an evening sermon at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries.

News of the event reminded Saint Lucian natives of a similar attack at the same Cathedral on New Year's Eve, 2000, in which a nun was killed and another injured.

[11] The Archbishop was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1986 from St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia and was appointed an Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992.