 This was followed on 20 July 1953 by his appointment as Archbishop and Metropolitan of Ottawa, on 17 September 1953 he was officially inaugurated to his new office.On 16 September 1966, he retired from the office of archbishop of Ottawa and became the titular archbishop of Saldae.From 1966-1968 he was Apostolic Nuncio in Haiti and then in 1969 simultaneously the Apostolic Delegate to the Antilles.