He entered the seminary in Košice around 1932 and was ordained a priest in Szepeshely around 1935. He left the country in 1945. He served in Germany for most of his life; from 1951 to 1956, he lived in Venezuela as the first Roman Catholic priest of the Hungarian community there. After 1956, he returned to Europe. In January 1972, he underwent major heart surgery; later that same year, in September, he suffered a heart attack in his car and passed away.