List of urban prefects of Constantinople

Summary

This is a list of urban prefects or eparchs of Constantinople. The Prefect or Eparch (in Greek: ὁ ἔπαρχος τῆς πόλεως) was one of the oldest and longest-lived offices of the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire, being created in 359 and surviving relatively unaltered until the Fourth Crusade. The Eparch was one of the most important officials of the Empire, and exercised full control over all aspects of the administration of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire's capital. In the Palaiologan period (1261–1453) the title was still awarded, but the office was replaced by several kephalatikeuontes (sing. kephalatikeuon, κεφαλατικεύων, "headsman"), who each oversaw a district, effectively a separate village within the now much less populous capital.

4th century edit

Proconsuls of Constantinople (until 359) edit

Prefects of Constantinople (from 359) edit

  • Honoratus (359–361)
  • Domitius Modestus (362–363)
  • Jovius (364)
  • Caesarius (365)
  • Phronimius (365–366)
  • Clearchus (372–373; first term)
  • Vindaonius Magnus (375–376)
  • Restitutus (380)
  • Pancratius (381–382)
  • Sophronius (382?)
  • Clearchus (382–384; second term)
  • Themistius (384)
  • Palladius (382/408)
  • Theodorus (385/387)
  • Nebridius (386)
  • Clementinus (386/387)
  • Proculus (388–392)
  • Aristaenetus (392)
  • Aurelianus (393–394)
  • Honoratus (394?)
  • Theodotus (395)
  • Claudius (396)
  • Africanus (396–397)
  • Romulianus (398)
  • Severinus (398–399)

5th century edit

  • Clearchus (400–402)
  • Simplicius (403)
  • Paianius (404)
  • Studius (404)
  • Optatus (404–405)
  • Gemellus (404/408)
  • Aemilianus (406)
  • Monaxius (17 January 408 – 26 April 409)
  • Anthemius Isidorus (4 September 410 – 20 October 412)
  • Priscianus (413)
  • Ursus (415–416)
  • Aetius (419)
  • Florentius (422)
  • Severinus (423–424)
  • Constantius (424–425)
  • Theophilus (425–426)
  • Cyrus of Panopolis (426)
  • Neuthius
  • Proculus (428)
  • Heliodorus (432)
  • Leontius (434–435)
  • Cyrus of Panopolis (439–441)
  • Iustinianus (474)[1]
  • Adamantius (474–479)

6th century edit

7th century edit

  • Kosmas (c. 608)

8th century edit

  • Daniel of Sinope (c. 713/4)
  • Prokopios (766)

9th century edit

  • Marianos (c. 850)
  • Niketas Ooryphas (860)
  • Basil (862–866)
  • Constantine Myares (866)
  • Paul (c. 869)
  • Constantine Kapnogenes (under Basil I)
  • Marianos (under Leo VI)
  • John (late 9th century)
  • Philotheos under Leo VI
  • Michael (turn of 9th/10th century)

10th century edit

12th century edit

13th century edit

Latin Occupation (1204–1261)

14th century edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Attested by a law issued on March 16 and preserved in Codex Justiniani II 7.16a. "Iustinianus 4", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, p. 645.

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