Carlos Griego was born on July 11, 1932, in Albuquerque to Carlos Griego and Bernardita Compos. He entered the Novitiate at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, as a Cooperator Brother and was given the name Vincent Ferrer. He made his religious profession on July 5, 1953. He was assigned to Saint Peter Martyr Priory in Winona, Minnesota, where he was the community tailor. He later moved to St. Pius V Parish where he work with Hispanic youth who were recently arriving from Mexico. In 1970, he went to the mission in Bolivia where he worked with students in Cochabamba. Returning to Chicago, he received a Master of Pastoral Studies from Loyola University in Chicago in 1979 and a Masters in Religious Education in 1983, during which time he taught at Holy Trinity High School in Chicago and later at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, as a religion teacher and part-time chaplain. In 1997, he was assigned to Saint Thomas Aquinas Priory in River Forest, where he helped care for friars of the province who were ill. In time, his health began to decline, and he was assigned to Saint Pius V Priory where he would receive assisted care, he later moved to Saint Francis Village in Chicago where he died on February 18, 2010.

The Office of the Dead and the Mass of Christian Burial were held at Saint Pius V Church in Chicago, Illinois and he was buried in the plot at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois.