[1] Having embraced the rule of St. Dominic, he devoted himself to preaching, and was in 1628 called to Rome to teach philosophy in the monastery of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

Appointed in 1631 director of the missions of Major Armenia, he succeeded in gaining for the Catholic faith a number of schismatics and Eutychians, among the latter the patriarchs Cyriac and Moyse III.

In 1654 he passed over to Africa, with a view of converting infidels, but was captured by Barbary pirates, who kept him prisoner for fourteen months.

[1] Appointed archbishop of Nakhchivan (1655), he governed that Armenian Church to the close of 1664, when he was transferred to the episcopal see of Bisignano, in the kingdom of Naples.

[1] Piromalli wrote sixteen works never printed, among which we may mention a Vocabulary and a Grammar of the Armenian language.