This is a list of urban prefects or eparchs of Constantinople. The Prefect or Eparch (in ) 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 Names and dates until 641 are taken from the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Exact dates given are those on which the prefects are known to have held office, but not necessarily the days on which they started or ended their terms. Proconsuls of Constantinople (until 359)
Prefects of Constantinople (from 359)
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13th century Latin Occupation (1204–1261)
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