In 1832, he formally relinquished his scholarship to enter postulant at the Discalced Carmelites convent of Lérida.
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He received his episcopal consecration on the following 10 April from Cardinal Girolamo Maria Gotti, OCD, with Archbishops Pietro Gasparri and Edmund Stonor serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide.
He received his episcopal consecration on February 24, 1942 from Archbishop Giorgio Caruana, with Archbishop Manuel Zubizarreta y Unamunsaga, OCD, and Bishop Eduardo Martínez y Dalmau, CP, serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of Havana.
Bassim was born in Zgharta, North Governorate, and as a young man became a friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites.
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