The Titular Archbishopric of Gabala, formerly the Diocese of Gabala, is a
titular archbishopric
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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named for its former see, the city of
Jableh
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, in present-day
Syria.
Greek bishopric
No later than the 4th century, Gabala became a bishopric in the
Roman province
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of
Syria Prima,
suffragan of the
Archdiocese of Seleucia Pieria. Later it was raised to a Byzantine
autocephalous
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Archbishopric, remaining within the sway of the original
Patriarchate of Antioch
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, 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
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, one of the
Crusader States, until its capture by
Saladin
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in 1189 during the
Third Crusade
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, apparently under the
Latin Patriarchate of Antioch
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The jurisdiction of the Latin patriarchs in Antioch extended over the ...
. 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
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(O.P.) (12 July 1264 - ?)
Latin titular see
No later than the 16th century the diocese was nominally restored as Latin
Titular Bishopric
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of Gabala. It has had the following incumbents, of the episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Juan Martín (1513.11.04 – ?) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Urgell
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(
Spain
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) (1513.11.04 – ?)
* Alfonso de Villasancta,
Friars Minor
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(O.F.M.) (1526.02.21 – ?) as Auxiliary Bishop of Urgell (Spain) (1526.02.21 – ?)
* Bertrand Reydellet,
Paris Foreign Missions Society
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(M.E.P.) (1762.07.27 – death 1780.07.27) first as
Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of
Western Tonking (
Vietnam
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; 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
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(O.C.D.) (1787.11.09 – death 1793.05.31) as Apostolic Vicar of
Great Mogul
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(British East
India
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; 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
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(USA) (1857.01.09 – 1859.01.21); later Bishop of
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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(USA) (1859.01.21 – retired 1880.09.10), died 1999
* Patrick Dorrian (1860.06.23 – 1865.07.13) as
Coadjutor Bishop of
Down and Connor (
Northern Ireland
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, 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
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History
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Poland
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) (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
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(
Papua New Guinea
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) (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
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Claudiopolis in Honoriade
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It was an episcopal see during Late Antiquity, and remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Chur ...
(1945.01.18 – death 1953.11.05)
Around 1932 it was promoted as Latin
Titular Archbishopric
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
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 (C.S.Sp.) (1962.03.10 – 2007.01.12)
* ''Ricardo Lingan Baccay (2007.02.23 – 2016.02.20)''
*
Archbishop-elect Santiago De Wit Guzmán (born Spain) (2017.03.21 – ...), as papal diplomat :
Apostolic Nuncio
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(ambassador) to Central African Republic (2017.03.21 – present)
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Syria
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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