Megas logothetes

The megas logothetēs (Greek: μέγας λογοθέτης) or Grand Logothete, was an official supervising all the sekreta (the Byzantine Empire's fiscal departments).

The post was first established by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) as the logothetēs tōn sekretōn (λογοθέτης τῶν σεκρέτων), in an attempt to improve the coordination of the various departments.^[1] The fiscal departments in particular were further grouped under two other officials: the two principal treasury departments, the genikon and eidikon, were put under the megas logariastēs ("grand accountant") of the sekreta (μέγας λογαριαστής τῶν σεκρέτων), while another megas logariastēs (μέγας λογαριαστής τῶν εὐαγῶν σεκρέτων) oversaw the "pious bureaux" (εὐαγή σεκρέτα, euagē sekreta), i.e. imperial estates and religious foundations.^[2] By the mid-12th century, the logothetēs tōn sekretōn had become the megas logothetēs, an office which survived until the fall of the Empire in 1453.

Today the leading offikion among the archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople still bears the title of Grand Logothete.^[3]

References

1. ^ Kazhdan (1991), p. 1247
2. ^ Magdalino (2002), pp. 228–230
3. ^ "Offikion - Archon Titles". Order of St Andrew the Apostle - Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. http://www.archons.org/archons/offikion.asp. Retrieved 9 August 2009. 

Sources

• (French) Guilland, Rodolphe (1971), "Les Logothètes: Etudes sur l'histoire administrative de l'Empire byzantin", Revue des études byzantines 29: 5–115, doi:10.3406/rebyz.1971.1441, http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rebyz_0766-5598_1971_num_29_1_1441, retrieved 28 May 2011 
• Kazhdan, Alexander, ed (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6. 
• Magdalino, Paul (2002). The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52653-1. 

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