Mikael Bassalé

Mikael Bassalé, I.C.P.B.
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	26 September 2024
Predecessor	Raphaël François Minassian
Successor	Kevork Noradounguian
Orders
Ordination	21 December 1997 (Priest)
Personal details
Born	Mikael Bassalé; 16 January 1969 (age 55); Beirut, Lebanon

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.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Father Mikael Bassalé, I.C.P.B." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "ÈՀայր Միքայէլ Պասալէ' Հայաստանի եւ Արեւելեան Եւրոպայի Հայ Կաթողիկէ Առաջնորդութեան Առաքելական Կառավարիչ". vaticannews (in Armenian). 17 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "Назначен новый Апостольский Администратор для Армянского Католического Ординариата Армении, Грузии, России и Восточной Европы". Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe website (in Russian). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^ "Nomina dell'Amministratore Apostolico dell'Ordinariato per gli Armeni cattolici dell'Europa Orientale". the Holy See press office (in Italian). Retrieved 18 May 2022.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Raphaël François Minassian	Apostolic Administrator of Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe 2022–2024	Succeeded by Kevork Noradounguian