The P.Peter Coates L.C. was born in Newbridge, Ireland on May 21, 1948. After high school, he entered the Legion candidate program at Belgard Castle, Dublin in the summer of 1965. He entered the novitiate on September 29 of the same year and completed his first year of novitiate in Dublin. He went to Woodmont, Conn., in the United States for his second year and to accompany the first Americans who joined the Legion that year. There, he made his first profession on October 2, 1967, and stayed an additional year helping with the vocations tour. He went to Salamanca to study humanities during the 1968-1969 course and to Rome to study philosophy starting in 1969. He obtained his philosophy license at the Gregorian University and his theology license at Santo Tomás. During his studies in Rome, he served as an assistant to philosophers for three years and as an assistant to theologians for one year. He was ordained on December 24, 1976, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Rome. At the end of that school year, he was sent to Monterrey, Mexico, where he has served his ministry for 42 years in various apostolates: director of gentlemen for 3 years, director of the Irish Institute for 13 years (in two different periods), director of ladies for 23 years, chaplain of Cecvac for 3 years. During this time, he has been chaplain to some communities of consecrated persons and has promoted the construction of the novitiate, a formation center for consecrated persons, and the Chipinque retreat center. At the same time, he has participated in the founding of several schools and apostolates in the area.