Gabula was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Syria, and remains a Latin Catholic
titular see.
Its modern location is presumed at the marsh of
al-Jabbul
Al-Jabbul ( ar, الجبول) is a Syrian village in the Aleppo Governorate to the north of Sabkhat al-Jabbul
Sabkhat al-Jabbūl or Mamlahat al-Jabbūl or Lake Jabbūl ( ar, سبخة الجبول) is a large, traditionally seasonal, saline l ...
(
Sabkhat al-Jabbul, Djebbul, Djabbul) in present
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
.
History
Gabula was important enough in the
Roman province of
Syria Prima
Syria I or Syria Prima ("First Syria", in el, Πρώτη Συρία, ''Prṓtē Suríā'') was a Byzantine province, formed c. 415 out of Syria Coele. The province survived until the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 630s.
History
Syria I emerged ...
to be a Metropolitan Archdiocese in the sway of the
Patriarchate of Antioch (the provincial capital Antioch on the Orontes), but was to fade, presumably at the advent of Islam.
It has had two historically documented incumbents :
* Bassianus (Bassones), participant at the
First Council of Nicaea in 325
* Flavianus, signator of the letter of the episcopate of Syria Secunda to
Byzantine emperor Leo I the Thracian (457-474) in 458, after the lynch-mobbing by Copts of Patriarch
Proterius of Alexandria.
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) rank :
*
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
Mardin was a diocese of the Chaldean Church from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The diocese lapsed in 1941. Prior to this, it was a diocese of the Assyrian Church of the East, from which the Chaldean Catholic Church originated.
Backgr ...
(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) (
962.09.04 96 may refer to:
* 96 (number)
* one of the years 96 BC, AD 96, 1996, 2096, etc.
Places
* Ninety Six, South Carolina
* Ninety-Six District, a former judicial district in the Carolinas, USA
* Ninety Six National Historic Site, in Ninety Six, Sout ...
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)
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Syria
*
Gabala (another former archbishopric)
*
Catholic Church in Syria
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic with titular incumbent biography links ; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p. 434 (Gabba)
* Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris 1740, vol. II, coll. 787-788
* Siméon Vailhé, ''Notes de géographie ecclésiastique'', in ''Échos d'Orient'', vol. IV (1900), p. 17.
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Catholic titular sees in Asia
Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses