List of Roman governors of Bithynia and Pontus

This is a list of governors of the Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus:

As a Senatorial province

Gaius Papirius Carbo (61—59 BC);^[1]
Gaius Memmius (57—56 BC);^[2]
Gaius Caecilius Cornutus (56 BC);^[3]
Publius Silius (51 BC);^[4]
Aulus Plautius (49—48 BC);^[5]
Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus (47/46 BC);^[6]
Quintus Marcius Crispus (45 BC);^[7]
Lucius Tillius Cimber (44 BC);^[8]
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (40—34 BC);^[9]
Thorius Flaccus (29/28 — 28/27 BC);^[10]
Appius Claudius Pulcher (27/26 BC);
Gaius Marcius Censorinus (c. 14/13 BC);
Lucius Licinius C[...] (c. AD 11/12);
Manius Ota[cilius Crassus?] (reign of Augustus?);
Marcus Granius Marcellus (AD 14/15);
Publius Vitellius (AD 17/18);
Lucius Mindius Balbus (c. 43–47);
Gaius Cadius Rufus (47/48);
Publius Pasidienus Firmus (48/49 — 49/50);
Lucius Mindius Pollio (after 42);
Lucius Dunius Severus (after 42);
Attius Laco (54/55?);
Marcus Tarquitius Priscus (59/60?);
Petronius Niger (between 62 and 69);
Lucius Venuleius Montanus^[11] (c. 63);
Marcus Plancius Varus (70/71? or 71/72?);
Marcus Maecius Rufus (c. 71/72 or 72/73);
Marcus Salvidienus Proculus (c. 75/76);
Marcus Salvidienus Asprenas (c. 76/77);
Velius Paulus (c. 79/80);
Lucius Minicius Rufus (81/82?);
Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus (82/83?);
Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus (c. 83/84);
Lucius Julius Marinus (88/89 or 89/90);
Tullius Justus (96/97);
Gaius Julius Bassus (101/102?);
Varenus Rufus (105/106);
Anicius Maximus (before 108/109);
Publius Severus Calvus (108/109);
Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) (c. 109 — 111) ;
Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus (111 — 114/115?);
Quintus Cornelius Senecio Annianus (reign of Hadrian)
Gaius Julius Severus (134)
Quintus Voconius Saxa Fidus (142/143 ?)
Lucius Coelius Festus (146/147 ?)
Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus (159)^[12]
Marcus Roscius Murena (c. 161/162)

As an Imperial province

Lucius Albinius Saturninus (c. 180)^[12]
Severus (before 183)^[13]
Marcus Didius Severus Julianus (between 186 and 189)^[13]
Lucius Fabius Cilo (193/194)^[13]
Marcus Silius Messala (between 193 and 197)^[14]
Quintus Tineius Sacerdos (198/199)^[13]
Marcus Cl(audius) Demetrius (between 199 and 217)^[13]
Tiberius Claudius Callipianus Italicus (between 202 and 205)^[13]
Aelius Antipater (after 204)^[15]
Gaius Claudius Attalus Paterculianus (between 193 and 214)
Caecilius Aristo (215/216 ? - 217/218)
(Claudius Aelius ?) Pollio (c. 218)^[15]
Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus (between 230 and 235)^[15]
Marcus Aurelius Artemidorus (245/246 - 247/248)
Velleius Macrinus (c. 269)

References

^ Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (New York: American Philological Association, 1952), Vol. II, pp. 184, 190
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 202
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 209
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 242, 250
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 262, 276
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 289; Vol. III p. 219
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 294, 298, 328
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 308, 329, 348
^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 381, 387, 391, 396, 400, 406, 411
^ Unless otherwise stated, the governors between 29 BC and AD 284 are taken from Bernard Rémy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.), (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), pp. 16-79
^ Now firmly identified. See Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, "L'inscription 'CIL' XI 1735 complétée et les 'Venulei'", Latomus, 42 (1983), pp. 152-155
^ ^a ^b Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 238
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n. Chr.) (Amsterdam, 1989), p. 260
^ F. Dönmez-Öztürk, R. Haensch, H. Sami Öztürk, H., and P. Weiss, "Aus dem Pera Museum (Istanbul): weitere Gewichte mit Nennung von Statthaltern von Pontus et Bithynia", Chiron, 38 (2008), pp. 243-65
^ ^a ^b ^c Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 261