He was ordained on 28 June 1987 by Bishop Lester Guilly, SJ, then emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Georgetown (Guyana), in the church of his childhood (in Crochu), St Martin de Porres.

With this the diocese was to be led for the first time by a native of the country and once again by a bishop of religious profession (as opposed to Charles, who was, by exception, a priest of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain).

He was consecrated by Charles on 2 October, with then-Archbishop Kelvin Felix of Castries and then-Bishop Malcolm McMahon, OP, of Nottingham as the principal co-consecrators.

[2] In the early hours of 26 April 2016, after "a battle with pneumonia" and while undergoing medical treatment at Bellevue in New York City, Darius died at the age of sixty.

[3][4] Darius could not be present at this year's APM (Annual Plenary Meeting) of the AEC, which took place just over two weeks prior, in the Archdiocese of Port of Spain.