The ''kanstresios'' ( el, κανστρήσιος) was an official of the
Orthodox
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Religion
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patriarchate
Patriarchate ( grc, πατριαρχεῖον, ''patriarcheîon'') is an ecclesiological term in Christianity, designating the office and jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
According to Christian tradition three patriarchates were est ...
of
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...
during the
Byzantine Empire
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. Ranked between a ''
protonotarios
The word prothonotary is recorded in English since 1447, as "principal clerk of a court," from L.L. ''prothonotarius'' ( c. 400), from Greek ''protonotarios'' "first scribe," originally the chief of the college of recorders of the court of the B ...
'' and a ''referendarios'', he supervised offerings.
Those who have held the post include Manuel Dishypatos of the order of the Levites (probably to be identified with
Manuel Opsaras Dishypatos,
Metropolitan of
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...
from 1258)
[Maria Vasilakê, ''Images of the Mother of God: Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium'' (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005), p. 26]
online.
/ref> and Demetrios Chloros (14th century).
The title is not to be confused with the '' kastresios'', which was a court office related to the provisioning of the palace and the imperial table, usually held by eunuchs.
References
Byzantine ecclesiastical titles and offices
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