# Gabula (Syria)

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'''Gabula''' was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman Syria, and remains a Latin Catholic [titular see](/source/titular_see).

Its modern location is presumed at the marsh of [al-Jabbul](/source/al-Jabbul) ([Sabkhat al-Jabbul](/source/Sabkhat_al-Jabbul), Djebbul, Djabbul) in present [Syria](/source/Syria).

== History ==
Gabula was important enough in the [Roman province](/source/Roman_province) of [Syria Prima](/source/Syria_Prima) to be a Metropolitan Archdiocese in the sway of the [Patriarchate of Antioch](/source/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](/source/First_Council_of_Nicaea) in 325
* Flavianus, signator of the letter of the episcopate of Syria Secunda to [Byzantine emperor](/source/Byzantine_emperor)  [Leo I the Thracian](/source/Leo_I_the_Thracian) (457-474) in 458, after the lynch-mobbing by Copts of Patriarch [Proterius of Alexandria](/source/Proterius_of_Alexandria).

== Titular see ==
The diocese was nominally restored in 1929 as a Latin Catholic [titular archbishopric](/source/titular_archbishopric).

It is vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank :
* [Joseph Attipetty](/source/Joseph_Attipetty) (1932.11.29 – 1934.11.15)
* Patrick Finbar Ryan, [Dominican Order](/source/Dominican_Order) (O.P.) (1937.04.13 – 1940.06.06)
* [Louis Batanian](/source/Louis_Batanian) (1940.08.10 – 1952.12.06); previously Archeparch (Archbishop) of [Mardin of the Armenians](/source/Mardin_of_the_Armenians) (1933.08.05 – 1940.08.10); later Archeparch of [Aleppo of the Armenians](/source/Aleppo_of_the_Armenians) (Syria) (1952.12.06 – 1959.04.24), [Titular Archbishop](/source/Titular_Archbishop) of [Colonia in Armenia of the Armenians](/source/Colonia_in_Armenia_of_the_Armenians) (1959.04.24 – 1962.09.04) & [Auxiliary Bishop](/source/Auxiliary_Bishop) of the patriarchate [Cilicia of the Armenians](/source/Cilicia_of_the_Armenians) (Lebanon) (1959.04.24 – 1962.09.04), [Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians](/source/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](/source/Society_of_African_Missionaries) (S.M.A.) (1964.01.14 – 1980.10.10)

== See also ==
* [List of Catholic dioceses in Syria](/source/List_of_Catholic_dioceses_in_Syria)
* [Gabala](/source/Jableh) (another former archbishopric)
* [Catholic Church in Syria](/source/Catholic_Church_in_Syria)

== References ==
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== Sources and external links ==
* [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0823.htm GCatholic with titular incumbent biography links ]
; Bibliography
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;17.

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Category:Catholic titular sees in Asia
Category:Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses

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