List of Roman governors of Bithynia and Pontus explained

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)

Notes and References

1. [Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton]
2. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 202
3. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 209
4. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 242, 250
5. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 262, 276
6. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 289; Vol. III p. 219
7. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 294, 298, 328
8. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 308, 329, 348
9. Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 381, 387, 391, 396, 400, 406, 411
10. 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
11. Now firmly identified. See Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, "L'inscription 'CIL' XI 1735 complétée et les 'Venulei'", Latomus, 42 (1983), pp. 152-155
12. [Géza Alföldy]
13. Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n. Chr.) (Amsterdam, 1989), p. 260
14. 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
15. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 261