Porter entered the
Society of African Missions in 1915 and was ordained in 1918. He served as Vicar Apostolic of Northern Nigeria (now the
Archdiocese of Kaduna) from 1930 to 25 April 1933.
Episcopacy Porter became
Apostolic Vicar of Cape Coast in 1933 and
titular bishop of Urusi. In 1936, Porter established a Catholic secondary school,
St. Augustine's College in Cape Coast. He also established several Catholic youth groups. He became an archbishop when the diocese was raised to an archdiocese on 18 Apr 1950. He retired as archbishop on 15 May 1959, when he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Lemnus. Ported died in 1966. ==References==