List of Roman governors of Syria
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This is a list of governors of the Theodosius I (379 – 395), Syria Phoenicia was divided into Phoenicia Maritima and Phoenicia Libanensis.
Proconsular governors of Syria (65–27 BC)
- 65–62: Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
- 61–60: Lucius Marcius Philippus
- 59–58: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
- 57–54: Aulus Gabinius
- 54–53: Marcus Licinius Crassus
- 53–51: Gaius Cassius Longinus
- 51–50: Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus
- 50/49: Veiento
- 49–48: Metellus Scipio
- 47–46: Sextus Julius Caesar
- 46–44: Quintus Caecilius Bassus
- 45: Gaius Antistius Vetus
- 44: Lucius Staius Murcus
- 44–43: Quintus Marcius Crispus
- 44–42: Gaius Cassius Longinus
- 41–40: Lucius Decidius Saxa
- 40–39: Parthian occupation
- 39–38: Publius Ventidius Bassus
- 38–37: Gaius Sosius
- 35: Lucius Munatius Plancus
- 34/33–33/32: Lucius Calpurnius Bibulus
- 30: Quintus Didius
- 29: Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus
- 28–25: Cicero Minor
Propraetorial Imperial Legates of Roman Syria (27 BC to 193 AD)
Proconsular Imperial Legates of Syria Coele (193 AD to c. 295 AD)
Date | Governor |
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c. 207 – 209 | Marius Maximus |
c. 209 – 211 | Minicius Martialis |
c. 216 | Aurelius Mam(---) |
c. 221 | Julius Antonius Seleucus
|
Between 225 and 235 | Quintus Aradius Rufinus Optatus Aelianus |
(?) 235 | (? Claudius Sollemnius) Pacatianus |
c. 241 | Attius Rufinus |
c. 241 – 249 | Flavius Antiochus |
c. 251 | Atilius Cosminus |
c. 251 | Pomponius Laetianus |
During the 260s | Virius Lupus |
c. 275 | Maximinus[2] |
c. 279 | Julius Saturninus |
Between 276 and 282 | Claudius Cleobulus |
Between 289 and 297 | L. Aelius Helvius Dionysius |
290 | Charisius |
Propraetorial Imperial Legates of Syria Phoenicia (193 AD to c. 295 AD)
Date | Governor |
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193 – 194 | Ti. Manilius Fuscus[3] |
198 | Q. Venidius Rufus Marius Maximus L. Calvinianus |
c. 207 | Domitius Leo Procillianus |
213 | D. Pius Cassius |
Between 268 and 270 | Salvius Theodorus |
Between 284 and 305 | L. Artorius Pius Maximus |
292 – 293 | Crispinus |
Consularis Governors of Syria Coele (c. 295 AD to c. 415 AD)
Date | Governor |
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Between 293 and 305 | Latinius Primosus |
305 | Verinus |
? 323 | Dyscolius |
After 324 | Arrius Maximus |
Between 324 and 337 | Plutarchus |
Between 329 and 335 | Fl. Dionysius[4] |
338 | Nonnus[5] |
388 | Eustathius[6] |
347 | Theodorus |
348 | Fl. Antonius Hierocles |
349 | Anatolius |
Before 353 | Honoratus |
354 | Theophilus |
355 | Dionysius |
355 – 356 | Gymnasius |
358 | Nicentius |
358 – 359 | Sabinus |
360 | Tryphonianus |
360 | Italicianus |
361 | Siderius |
363 | Alexander |
363 – 364 | Celsus |
364 | Marcianus |
Between 364 and 380 | Protasius |
Between 364 and 380 | Protasius[7] |
Between 365 and 368 | Festus |
Between 365 and 371 | Aetherius |
Between 370 and 374 | Fl. Eutolmius Tatianus |
c. 379/80 | Carterius |
Before 381 | Domnicus |
c. 382 | Marcellinus |
c. 382/3 | Pelagius |
Between 382 and 393 | Timocrates |
c. 384/5 | Eumolpius |
386 | Tisamenus |
387 | Celsus |
388 | Lucianus |
388 | Eustathius |
389 | Eutropius |
c. 389/90 | Palladius |
390 | Infantius |
Before 392 | Capitolinus |
Before 392 | Iullus |
? 392/3 | Florentius |
Before 393/4 | Severus |
Consularis Governors of Syria Phoenicia (c. 295 AD to c. 395 AD)
Date | Governor |
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Between 293 and 305 | Aelius Statuus |
Between 293 and 303 | Sossianus Hierocles |
Before 305 | Julius Julianus |
? Between 309/313 | Maximus |
c. 323 | Achillius |
328 – 329 | Fl. Dionysius |
335 | Archelaus |
c. 337 | Nonnus |
342 | Marcellinus |
353/4 | Apollinaris |
Before 358 | Demetrius |
358 – 359 | Nicentius[8] |
(?) 359/60 | Euchrostius |
Before 360 | Julianus |
360 – 361 | Andronicus |
Before 361 | Aelius Claudius Dulcitius |
361 | Anatolius |
c. 361/2 | Polycles |
362 | Julianus |
362 – 363 | Gaianus |
363 – 364 | Marius |
364 | Ulpianus |
364 – 365 | Domninus |
372 | Leontius |
380 | Petrus |
382 – 383 | Proculus |
Before 388 | Eustathius |
388 | Antherius |
388 | Epiphanius |
390 | Domitius |
391 | Severianus |
392 | Leontius |
Footnotes
- Lucius Calpurnius Piso "the Pontifex" was here the governor of Syria. This is based on an inscription called the Titulus Tiburtinus.
- ^ Martindale & Jones, pg. 1105
- ^ Hall, pg. 94
- ^ Hall, pg. 95
- ^ Hall, pg. 96
- ^ Hall, pg. 103
- ^ Successor to the previous Protasius – see Martindale & Jones, pg. 1106
- ^ Martindale, J. R. & A. H. M. Jones, "Nicentius 1", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I AD 260-395 (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), p. 628
Bibliography
- Dąbrowa, Edward, The Governors of Roman Syria from Augustus to Septimius Severus (1998)
- Schürer Emil, Vermes Geza, Millar Fergus, The history of the Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135), Volume I, Edinburgh 1973, p. 243-266 (Survey of the Roman Province of Syria from 63 B.C. to A.D. 70).
- Linda Jones Hall, Roman Berytus: Beirut in late antiquity (2004)
- Martindale, J. R.; Jones, A. H. M, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I AD 260–395, Cambridge University Press (1971)