Gabula was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Syria, and remains a Latin Catholic

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. Its modern location is presumed at the marsh of al-Jabbul (

Sabkhat al-Jabbul Sabkhat al-Jabbūl or Mamlahat al-Jabbūl or Lake Jabbūl ( ar, سبخة الجبول) is a large, traditionally seasonal, saline lake and concurrent salt flats (sabkha) 30 km southeast of Aleppo, Syria, in the Bāb District of Aleppo ...

, Djebbul, Djabbul) in present Syria.

History

Gabula was important enough in the

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of Syria Prima to be a Metropolitan Archdiocese in the sway of the

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(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

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in 325 * Flavianus, signator of the letter of the episcopate of Syria Secunda to

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(457-474) in 458, after the lynch-mobbing by Copts of Patriarch

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Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1929 as a Latin Catholic

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. It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank : *

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(1932.11.29 – 1934.11.15) * Patrick Finbar Ryan,

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(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

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(Syria) (1952.12.06 – 1959.04.24),

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(1959.04.24 – 1962.09.04) & Auxiliary Bishop of the patriarchate

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(Lebanon) (1959.04.24 – 1962.09.04),

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(Lebanon) ( 962.09.041962.11.15 – 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)

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. {{Authority control Catholic titular sees in Asia Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses

History

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