He attended high school in Sombor and Bosnia, and studied theology in Sarajevo and Zagreb. He was ordained a priest on April 20, 1941. He belonged to that generation of Hungarian Roman Catholic priests in the Southern Territories whose lives were fundamentally shaped by World War II and the subsequent reprisals. In 1944, he was interned and later sent to a labor camp in the Soviet Union, near Kharkiv. In 1949, he fled to the West, first living in Germany and serving as a pastor there, and later emigrating to Canada. In Windsor, he worked primarily in German-speaking pastoral ministry.”In 1949, he left for the West, first living in West Germany, then at an unknown date he left for Canada, where he was primarily involved in German-speaking pastoral work.