List of urban prefects of Constantinople


This is a list of urban prefects or eparchs of Constantinople. The Prefect or Eparch 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 the title was still awarded, but the office was replaced by several kephalatikeuontes, 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

6th century

7th century

  • Kosmas

8th century

9th century

10th century

11th century

  • Rhadenos

12th century

13th century

;Latin Occupation

14th century