He was appointed bishop on 27 April 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
He was consecrated and installed at Bungoma on 28 June 1987 by the hands of Jozef Cardinal Tomko, Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola assisted by Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga, Archbishop of Nairobi and Bishop Philip Sulumeti, Bishop of Kakamega.
[1] While bishop at Bungoma, he invited three sisters of the Arundel Community from the United Kingdom, to travel to the diocese in 1991.
The nuns were offered land near the village of Myanga by a local family.
[2] He died in office on 15 November 1996, at the age of 60 years, two months shy of his 61st birthday.