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Hamel was ordained as a priest on 30 June 1958.{{r|De Coustin & Théobald (2016)|Press Release}} He served as an assistant priest at the St. Antoine church in [[Le Petit-Quevilly]] from 1958, an assistant priest at the Notre-Dame de Lourdes church in [[Sotteville-lès-Rouen]] from 1967, a parish priest in [[Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf]] from 1975, and a parish priest in [[Cléon]] from 1988. He joined the church in [[Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray]] in 2000.{{r|nytimesabelovednossiter}} He officially retired in 2005 at the age of 75, but continued serving as the parish's assistant priest.{{r|Henley (2016)}}{{r|nytimesabelovednossiter}}
 
With local [[imam]] Mohammed Karabila, the president of Normandy's regional council of Muslims, Hamel worked since early 2015 on an interfaith committee.{{r|De Coustin & Théobald (2016)|Tributes Paid to Priest}} After Hamel's death, Karabila described him as his friend with whom he had discussed religion and as also as someone who gave his life for others.{{r|El imán Mohammed}}
 
==Death and legacy==