On 17 April 1842, he was consecrated Titular bishop of Gerra and Coadjutor of the Apostolic vicar of s-Hertogenbosch, at Church of Saint Denis in Tilburg, by baron Cornelius Ludovicus van Wijkerslooth, ordaining bishop for the Netherlands.
The fire god Gibil (named Gerra in Akkadian) is sometimes the son of Ishkur and Shala.