List of Roman governors of Bithynia and Pontus

This is a list of governors of the Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus:[1]

As a Senatorial province

• Gaius Papirius Carbo (61—59 BC);
• Gaius Memmius Gemellus (57—56 BC);
• Gaius Caecilius Cornutus (56 BC);
• Publius Silius (51 BC);
• Aulus Plautius (49—48 BC);
• Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus (47/46 BC);[2]
• Quintus Marcius Crispus (45 BC);
• Thorius Flaccus (29/28 — 28/27 BC);
• 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 (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);
• Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c. 109 — 111) ;
• Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus (111 — 114/115?);
• Quintus Cornelius Senecio Annianus (reign of Hadrian)

As an Imperial province

• Gaius Julius Severus (134)
• Quintus Voconius Saxa Fidus (142/143 ?)
• Lucius Coelius Festus (146/147 ?)
• Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus (159)[3]
• Marcus Roscius Murena (c. 161/162)
• Lucius Albinius Saturninus (c. 180)[3]
• Severus (before 183)[4]
• Marcus Didius Severus Julianus (between 186 and 189)[4]
• Lucius Fabius Cilo (193/194)[4]
• Marcus Silius Messala (between 193 and 197)[5]
• Quintus Tineius Sacerdos (198/199)[4]
• Marcus Cl(audius) Demetrius (between 199 and 217)[4]
• Tiberius Claudius Callipianus Italicus (between 202 and 205)[4]
• Aelius Antipater (after 204)[6]
• Gaius Claudius Attalus Paterculianus (between 193 and 214)
• Caecilius Aristo (215/216 ? - 217/218)
• (Claudius Aelius ?) Pollio (c. 218)[6]
• Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus (between 230 and 235)[6]
• Marcus Aurelius Artemidorus (245/246 - 247/248)
• Velleius Macrinus (c. 269)

References

1. Unless otherwise stated, this list is based on 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
2. Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol. III, p. 219
3. Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 238
4. Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n. Chr.) (Amsterdam, 1989), p. 260
5. 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
6. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 261