[4] While in New York, he met and married his wife Julie and, in 1965, obtained a Master of Sacred Theology degree under the supervision of Reinhold Niebuhr.
[4][5] After his graduation from the seminary, he moved back to the United Kingdom and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Essex.
[3][4] After moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba, with his wife and children,[6] he began his presbyteral ministry as an assistant priest at St John's Cathedral from 1980 to 1982.
[1][8] Following his retirement from the See of Keewatin, he and his wife, the priest Julie Black Collings, accepted a charge in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, in the Diocese of Qu'Appelle, where they undertook ministry development work.
[6][9] They later moved back to Winnipeg, where they continued their involvement in indigenous ministry and where they volunteered with St Thomas' Church, Weston.