Father Armani graduated from high school at the top of his class at St. Francis Xavier High School in Scarborough, Ontario before attending college at Ryerson University where he received degrees in English Literature and Communications Studies with minors in Philosophy and Religious Studies before going on to earn his Master's degree from Queens University where he wrote his thesis on The Modernist Poetry Movement in England during the early 1900s which led him down the path towards becoming ordained as a priest after graduating from seminary at Holy Name College in Toronto where he also earned additional degrees including one for counseling psychology as well as master's degrees for pastoral studies and education leadership before being hired by Holy Name Catholic Church as their new parish priest--a position