Thereafter he taught theology at Park Abbey and was appointed a canon of Bruges cathedral, where he became penitentiary in 1571 and archdeacon in 1588, as well as rural dean of the deanery of Damme.

[1] During the disturbances of the Dutch Revolt he took refuge in Walloon Flanders, first at Douai and later at Saint-Omer.

[1] After the death of Remi Drieux, the second bishop of Bruges, Lambrecht was appointed his successor.

He was consecrated bishop in Leuven on 28 July 1596 by Mathias Hovius, archbishop of Mechelen, and was installed in Bruges on 15 August 1596.

[1] Drafts of his letters to cardinals Borghese, Mattei and Baronius, written on 15 February 1602, were published in 1941.