 He was ordained into the diaconate in August 1964, and became a priest in December of that year.Fulton spent the next 30 years mostly as a parish priest, though from 1974–1980 he re-entered the business world as the Executive Vice President of Snelling & Snelling, which at the time was the world's largest employment agency.In 1980, however, he felt that God was calling him back into full-time ministry, and he resigned from the business world and started a new Episcopal church in Osprey, Florida.