 He was ordained a priest of the Congregation of the Passion on 22 December 1906.He was appointed Apostolic Delegate to India and Titular Archbishop of Salamis on 23 March 1931.On 26 April 1931, he was ordained a bishop by Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum, while the co-consecrators were Archbishop Pietro Pisani, who had himself been the Apostolic Delegate to India from 1919 to 1924, and Bishop Giovanni Battista Peruzzo.