 He was ordained on 22 December 1928.He was from 1930 until 1946 a faculty member of the Theological School of Zafra, Badajoz; director of the journal "Ilustración del Clero", Madrid; staff member of the journal "Commemoratium pro religiosis", Rome; secretary of the prefecture of studies of his congregation; founder of the journal "Vida religiosa", Rome; vice-postulator of the cause of beatification of Marcelo Spinola y Maestre, Archbishop of Seville.Pope Pius XII appointed him titular bishop of "Lirbe" and apostolic administrator of Barbastro, Spain on 16 February 1946.