Gabula (Syria)
- For namesake, see Gabula (general)
Gabula was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Syria, and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its modern location is presumed at the marsh of Djebbul, Djabbul in Syria.
History
Gabula was important enough in the Roman province of Syria Prima to be a diocese - suffragan of its Metropolitan Archbishop at Antioch or Archbishopric-, but was to fade.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1929 as a Latin Catholic titular archbishopric.
It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the intermediary (archiepiscopal) ran k :
- Joseph Attipetty (1932.11.29 – 1934.11.15)
- Patrick Finbar Ryan, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1937.04.13 – 1940.06.06)
- Louis Batanian (1940.08.10 – 1952.12.06); previously Archeparch (Archbishop) of Mardin of the Armenians (1933.08.05 – 1940.08.10); later Archeparch of Aleppo of the Armenians (Syria) (1952.12.06 – 1959.04.24), Titular Archbishop of Colonia in Armenia of the Armenians (1959.04.24 – 1962.09.04) & Auxiliary Bishop of the patriarchate Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon) (1959.04.24 – 1962.09.04), Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon) ([1962.09.04] 1962.11.15 – 1976.04.22) and President of Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church (1969 – 1976.04.22)
- Pompeo Ghezzi (1953.10.25 – 1957.04.17)
- Aurelio Macedonio Guerriero (1957.05.25 – 1963.10.19)
- Francis Carroll, Society of African Missionaries (S.M.A.) (1964.01.14 – 1980.10.10)
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