Logothete

Logothete was an administrative title of the eastern Roman Empire that rose in the middle and late Byzantine Empire to a senior post equivalent to a minister or secretary of state. Logothetes succeeded the fiscal officials of Late Antiquity; under Justinian I they gathered revenue in the provinces, and in the 7th century the old financial departments gave way to smaller ones, some headed by a logothete, such as the genikon for taxation and the dromos for the imperial post, diplomacy and intelligence. Alexios I Komnenos created a logothete over all the departments, later the Grand Logothete. The title spread to Bulgaria, Sicily, Serbia and the Danubian Principalities.