Mikael Bassalé

Mikael Bassalé, I.C.P.B.
Apostolic Administrator of Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe
Church	Armenian Catholic Church
Appointed	17 May 2022
Term ended	Incumbent
Predecessor	Raphaël François Minassian
Orders
Ordination	21 December 1997 (Priest)
Personal details
Birth name	Mikael Bassalé
Born	(1969-01-16) 16 January 1969 Aleppo, Syria

Mikael Bassalé, I.C.P.B. (Armenian: Միքայէլ Պասալէ`; born 16 January 1969) is a Syrian-born Armenian Catholic clegryman. He is serving as an Apostolic Administrator of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe from 17 May 2022.

Life

Father Bassalé was born in the Armenian family in diaspora, in Aleppo on 16 January 1969. After completed his primary education in his hometown, he subsequently joined the Minor Seminary of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar in Aleppo, where studied during 1986−1987, and continued his studies at the Major Bzommarian Seminary in the neighbouring Lebanon, where he made a solemn profession. He was ordained as priest on 21 December 1997, after the postgraduate studies in Rome, Italy.

After his ordination to priesthood, he served in the different Bzommar institutions in Lebanon, Armenia, Georgia and Russia and in the same time made a pastoral work for the Armenian Catholics. Last years Fr. Bassalé served as a parish priest of the Holy Cross in Belmont, Massachusetts, in the United States of America.

On 17 May 2022 Father Bassalé was appointed by Pope Francis an Apostolic Administrator of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe, that remained vacant almost 9 months, when the previous ordinary Raphaël François Minassian was elected as the Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Raphaël François Minassian	Apostolic Administrator of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe 2022–present	Incumbent