The Titular Archbishopric of Gabala, formerly the Diocese of Gabala, is a
titular archbishopric of the
Roman Catholic Church named for its former see, the city of
Jableh, in present-day
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 ...
.
Greek bishopric
No later than the 4th century, Gabala became a bishopric 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 ...
,
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of the
Archdiocese of Seleucia Pieria. Later it was raised to a Byzantine
autocephalous Archbishopric, remaining within the sway of the original
Patriarchate of Antioch, apparently until the Muslims conquered all Syria. Holders of the bishopric included:
* Zoilus (recorded in 325)
* Severus (circa 347)
* Domninus (in 381)
*
Severianus (early 5th century)
* Maras
* Pietro/Peter (first mention 451 - last 458)
* Giovanni/John (in 536)
* Romanus (in 553)
* Germanus
Latin bishopric
When the Crusaders conquered Gabala, it became a Latin bishopric in the
Principality of Antioch, one of the
Crusader States
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, until its capture by
Saladin in 1189 during the
Third Crusade, apparently under the
Latin Patriarchate of Antioch. Holders of the see included:
* William/Guglielmo (recorded in 1115)
*
Hugo/Ugo (first mention 1136 - last 1144)
* V. (in 1179)
* Radulfo (in 1261)
* Gualterio di Calabria,
Dominican Order (O.P.) (12 July 1264 - ?)
Latin titular see
No later than the 16th century the diocese was nominally restored as Latin
Titular Bishopric of Gabala. It has had the following incumbents, of the episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Juan Martín (1513.11.04 – ?) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Urgell (
Spain) (1513.11.04 – ?)
* Alfonso de Villasancta,
Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1526.02.21 – ?) as Auxiliary Bishop of Urgell (Spain) (1526.02.21 – ?)
* Bertrand Reydellet,
Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1762.07.27 – death 1780.07.27) first as
Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of
Western Tonking (
Vietnam; now Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hà Nôi) (1762.07.27 – 1764.10.19), then succeeding as Apostolic Vicar of Western Tonking (1764.10.19 – 1780.07.27)
* Viktor von der heiligen Maria Schwaiger,
Teresian Carmelites (O.C.D.) (1787.11.09 – death 1793.05.31) as Apostolic Vicar of
Great Mogul (British East
India; now Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bombay) (1787.11.09 – 1793.05.31)
* James Duggan (1857.01.09 – 1859.01.21) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Saint Louis (USA) (1857.01.09 – 1859.01.21); later Bishop of
Chicago (USA) (1859.01.21 – retired 1880.09.10), died 1999
* Patrick Dorrian (1860.06.23 – 1865.07.13) as
Coadjutor Bishop
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of
Down and Connor
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(
Northern Ireland, UK) (1860.06.23 – 1865.07.13); later succeeded as Bishop of Down and Connor (1865.07.13 – death 1885.11.03)
* Jules Lepley (孟), M.E.P. (1871.12.22 – death 1886.09.24) as Apostolic Vicar of
Southern Szechwan 南四川 (imperial China; now Diocese of Suifu) (1871.12.22 – 1886.03.06)
* Jacobus Glazer (1887.09.04 – death 1898?) Auxiliary Bishop of
Diocese of Przemyśl (
Poland) (1887.09.04 – 1898?)
* Alain Guynot de Boismenu,
Sacred Heart Missionaries
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( M.S.C.) (later Archbishop) (1899.05.23 – 1945.01.18) first as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of
New Guinea (
Papua New Guinea) (1899.05.23 – 1908.01), succeeding as Vicar Apostolic of New Guinea (1908.01 – 1922.11.14) and restyled first Vicar Apostolic of
Papua (Papua New Guinea) (1922.11.14 – 1946); later 'promoted' on emeritate as
Titular Archbishop of
Claudiopolis in Honoriade (1945.01.18 – death 1953.11.05)
Around 1932 it was promoted as Latin
Titular Archbishopric of Gabala. It has had the following incumbents, mostly of the archiepiscopal (intermediary) rank ''with an exception of Episcopal (lowest) rank'':
* Ignazio Mobarak (1952.01.20 – 1958.05.19)
* Vivian Anthony Dyer (1959.04.25 – 1960.08.12)
* Gérard-Paul-Louis-Marie de Milleville,
Holy Ghost Fathers
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, abbreviation ...
(C.S.Sp.) (1962.03.10 – 2007.01.12)
* ''Ricardo Lingan Baccay (2007.02.23 – 2016.02.20)''
*
Archbishop-elect
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Santiago De Wit Guzmán (born Spain) (2017.03.21 – ...), as papal diplomat :
Apostolic Nuncio (ambassador) to Central African Republic (2017.03.21 – present)
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Syria
The Catholic Church in Syria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
There are 368,000 Catholics in Syria (and its refugee diaspora), approximately 2% of the total population. The Catholics of ...
References
GCatholic - former and titular see; Bibliography - (arch)bishopric of Gabala
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig, 1931, p. 434
* Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris, 1740, Vol. II, coll. 797-800
* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, p. 257; vol. 2, p. 156; vol. 3, p. 200; vol. 6, pp. 221–222
* Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, ''Les Familles d'outre-mer'', Paris, 1869, pp. 795–796
* Siméon Vailhé, ''Notes de géographie ecclésiastique'', in ''Échos d'Orient'', Vol. IV (1900), pp. 15–17.
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Catholic titular sees in Asia
Former Eastern Catholic dioceses