[1][2] He was consecrated a bishop on St Andrew's Day (30 November) 1963, by Cecil Patterson, Archbishop of West Africa.

Kale was born the eldest son of the family of seven on June 6, 1904, in Ipata, Mobalufon, in Odogbolu Local Government of Ogun State.

I.O Ransome-Kuti, Kale became the first recipient of the prestigious Mojola Agbebi scholarship and was admitted to Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone where he earned a general degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Kale was twenty-five years old when he married Juliana Oladunni Odukoya, the grand-daughter of Oluwa Idele of Ijebu-Ode.

In 1969, he officiated the wedding of then president of Nigeria, Yakubu Gowon at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos.