Armenian clergyman
Mikael Bassalé , I.C.P.B. (Armenian : Միքայէլ Պասալէ` ; born 16 January 1969) is a Lebanese-born Armenian Catholic clergyman. He served as an Apostolic Administrator of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe from 17 May 2022 until 26 September 2024.[ 1]
Life
Father Bassalé was born in a diasporan Armenian family in Beirut on 16 January 1969. After completed his primary education in Aleppo , 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 Lebanon , where he made a solemn profession . He was ordained as priest on 21 December 1997,[ 1] after the postgraduate studies in the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome , Italy .[ 2] [ 3]
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.[ 2] Last years Fr. Bassalé served as a parish priest of the Holy Cross in Belmont, Massachusetts , in the United States of America.[ 4]
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 ,[ 1] 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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