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:
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 of
Down and Connor (
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 ( 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 (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 (ambassador) to Central African Republic (2017.03.21 – present)