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.
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.
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.