Sakellarios

A Sakellarios (Greek σακελλάριος ) is an official who is responsible for administrative and financial duties (of sakellē or SAKELLION, " Stock Exchange"). The title was used in the Byzantine Empire with different functions and exists to this day in the Orthodox churches continue.

In the Byzantine Empire which included SAKELLION the emperor also control lists imperial monasteries and their lands. Therefore Sakellarios was also an administrative title, which was given from the 7th century to the Chief Financial Officer of the Empire ( roughly the present Minister of Finance). Etymologically, the word from the Latin Sacellus, a wallet, the modern Greek word sakoula, bag, has the same origin. The Byzantine Empire was the legal successor of the Roman Empire. Therefore, many Latin terms were included in gräzisierter form in the Byzantine administrative language.

Because monasteries also have a financial budget, you find the same concept in the Greek Orthodox Church. In later centuries the title by the Greek ( Megas Thesaurophylax ) has been replaced, but it is unchanged to this day in the administration of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel. In the Council of Florence ( 1438-9 ), whose aim was to unite the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, found himself in the wake of the Patriarch of Constantinople Opel also its Megas Sakellarios.