Gabula was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Syria, and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Its modern location is presumed at the marsh of al-Jabbul (Sabkhat al-Jabbul) in Syria.
Gabula was important enough in the Roman province of Syria Prima to be a diocese - suffragan of its Metropolitan Archbishop at Antioch or Archbishopric-, but was to fade.
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) ran k :
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 (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) ([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 (S.M.A.) (1964.01.14 – 1980.10.10)
