Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I hangaia ia e John XXIII hei Kaarihana-Diakon o "Sant'Eugenio" i te consistory o te 28 o Poutu-te-rangi 1960. I muri mai ka whakaingoatia a Cardinal Bacci hei kaitiaki nui o "Colonia i Cappadocia" i te 5 o Aperira 1962, ka riro i a ia tana whakatapunga episekopo i te Paenga-whawha 19 mai i a John XXIII, me nga Kaariana Giuseppe Pizzardo me Benedetto Aloisi Masella e mahi ana hei kaihauturu. I tae ia ki te Kaunihera Tuarua o Vatican mai i te 1962 ki te 1965, a, i uru ia ki te
Ko te kōhanga pāpa o te tau 1963 i kōwhiria ai a Pope Paul VI.