 He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to India and Titular Archbishop of Constantia in Scythia on 15 December 1919.On 21 December 1919, he was ordained a bishop by Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum, while the co-consecrators were Archbishop Giovanni Gamberoni, Archbishop of Vercelli and Bishop Giacomo Sinibaldi, Titular Bishop of Tiberias.He resigned as Apostolic Delegate in October 1924 and died on 16 February 1960.