Ooryphas 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L IX
Dates860 (taq) / 860 (tpq)
PmbZ No.5503
Variant NamesOryphas
LocationsConstantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Constantinople
TitlesEparch, Constantinople (office)
Textual SourcesGeorgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history);
Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle);
Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history)

Ooryphas 1 was eparchos (ὕπαρχος) of Constantinople; he was left in charge of Constantinople when the emperor Michael III (Michael 11) set out on a campaign against the Arabs (καταλιπὼν ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ φυλάττειν Ὠορύφαν ὕπαρχον ὄντα, or similar); he sent an urgent message to the emperor to return when it was found that a Russian fleet was approaching Constantinople: Leo Gramm. 240, Georg. Mon. Cont. 826, Ps.- Symeon 674. The date was 860; see Ostrogorsky, History, p. 228, n. 1. He was perhaps identical with Niketas 66, but their offices in 860 do not correspond.

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