Sakellarios

A sakellarios (Greek: σακελλάριος) is an official entrusted with administrative and financial duties (cf. sakellē or sakellion, "purse, treasury"). The title was used in the Byzantine Empire with varying functions, and remains in use in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Civil administration

The first known sakellarios was a certain Paul, a freedman appointed by Emperor Zeno (reigned 474–491). The sakellarios is hence usually assumed to have headed a sakellion (or sakella, sakelle), a term which appears in early Byzantine sources with the apparent sense of "treasury", more specifically of cash, as opposed to the vestiarion which was for goods. Despite the origin of the term, the sakellarioi of the early Byzantine period (5th–7th centuries) are not directly associated with financial matters. Rather they appear connected with the imperial bedchamber (koiton), bearing court titles such as spatharios or koubikoularios, while some holders of the office were entrusted with distinctly non-financial tasks: Emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641) appointed the sakellarios Theodore Trithyrius to command against the Arabs, while another sakellarios conducted the examination of Maximos the Confessor under Constans II (r. 641–668).

Sakellarios (surname)

Sakellarios (Greek: Σακελλάριος), genitive and feminine form Sakellariou (Σακελλαρίου), is a Greek surname deriving from the Byzantine office of sakellarios.

The surname may refer to: