List of urban prefects of Constantinople

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

Proconsuls of Constantinople (until 359)

Prefects of Constantinople (from 359)

5th century

7th century

• Kosmas (c. 608)

8th century

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

9th century

• 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

• Theophilos Erotikos (?–945)
• Constantine the protospatharios (945–?)
• Theodore Daphnopates

12th century

• Basil (c. 1106)
• John Taronites (c. 1107)
• John Taronites (c. 1147)
• Andronikos Kamateros (c. 1156)
• John Kamateros (c. 1181)
• Theodore Pantechnes (1181/2)
• Constantine Tornikes (c. 1198/1199)

13th century

Latin Occupation (1204–1261)

• Constantine Chadenos (under Michael VIII)

14th century

• Theodore Synadenos (1328–1330/31)

Notes

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.

Sources

• Martindale, John R.; Jones, A.H.M.; Morris, John (1971), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume I: AD 260–395, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-07233-5 
• Martindale, John R.; Morris, John (1980), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume II: AD 395–527, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-20159-9 
• Martindale, John R.; Jones, A.H.M.; Morris, John (1992), The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume III: AD 527–641, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-20160-8