He began his career as apostolic preacher of Andalusia, aged thirty.

He later served as the apostolic preacher, a post often referred to as "preacher to the pope", for about seven years.

Apostolic Preacher.

A gold statue of heroic size represents him as the apostolic preacher at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

The Apostolic Preacher, also known as the Preacher to the Papal Household is a part of the Roman Curia.

The current Apostolic Preacher, Capuchin Friar Father Raniero Cantalamessa often presides over the homilies in the chapel and is occasionally used by Pope Benedict XVI.

After a long association with Newbiggin-by-the-Sea (Mary Heynes, former head girl of the West Junior School, reports that her father was an Apostolic preacher in the 1960s), the Apostolic Church now has no congregation in the town.