Mikael Bassalé

Mikael Bassalé, I.C.P.B. (; born 16 January 1969) is a Lebanese-born Armenian Catholic clergyman. He is serving as an Ordinary of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Greece since 25 January 2025. Previously 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.

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. He ceased to serve as an Apostolic Administrator after appointment of his successor on 26 September 2024. Some months later, on 25 January 2025 he was appointed as an Ordinary of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Greece.