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A different John the Cappadocian was Patriarch
List of Patriarchs of Constantinople

See talk page for different periodization of the bishopric, archbishopric and patriarchate....
 from 518-520. See John of Cappadocia
John of Cappadocia

John or Joannes II, surnamed Cappadox or Cappadocia, less commonly known as John the Cappadocian, Patriarch of Constantinople, , was appointed by Roman Emperor Anastasius I after an enforced condemnation of the Council of Chalcedon....
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John the Cappadocian was a praetorian prefect
Praetorian prefect

Praetorian prefect was the constant title of a high office in the Roman Empire state that changed fundamentally in nature.The praetorian prefect was commander of the Praetorian Guard until Constantine I abolished the guard in 314....
 in the Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
 under Emperor Justinian I
Justinian I

Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
. John was appointed to lead the first commission on Justinian's new legal code, the Corpus Juris Civilis
Corpus Juris Civilis

The Corpus Juris Civilis is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperors....
, and became Justinian's chief legal advisor. He was also appointed Praetorian prefect of the East
Praetorian prefecture of the East

The praetorian prefecture of the East or of Oriens was one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided....
, giving him the power to introduce new taxes on the population. The new taxes were very unpopular, and the mob involved in the Nika riots
Nika riots

The Nika riots , or Nika revolt, took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in 532. It was the most violent riot that Constantinople had ever seen to that point, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed....
 of 532 demanded that both John and the quaestor
Quaestor

Quaestor is a type of public official.In the Roman Republic a quaestor was an elected official who supervised the treasury and financial affairs of the state, its armies and its officers....
 Tribonian
Tribonian

File:Tribonian bas-relief in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.jpgTribonian was a jurist during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, who revised the Roman Law of the Roman Empire....
 be dismissed.






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A different John the Cappadocian was Patriarch
List of Patriarchs of Constantinople

See talk page for different periodization of the bishopric, archbishopric and patriarchate....
 from 518-520. See John of Cappadocia
John of Cappadocia

John or Joannes II, surnamed Cappadox or Cappadocia, less commonly known as John the Cappadocian, Patriarch of Constantinople, , was appointed by Roman Emperor Anastasius I after an enforced condemnation of the Council of Chalcedon....
.

John the Cappadocian was a praetorian prefect
Praetorian prefect

Praetorian prefect was the constant title of a high office in the Roman Empire state that changed fundamentally in nature.The praetorian prefect was commander of the Praetorian Guard until Constantine I abolished the guard in 314....
 in the Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
 under Emperor Justinian I
Justinian I

Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
. John was appointed to lead the first commission on Justinian's new legal code, the Corpus Juris Civilis
Corpus Juris Civilis

The Corpus Juris Civilis is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperors....
, and became Justinian's chief legal advisor. He was also appointed Praetorian prefect of the East
Praetorian prefecture of the East

The praetorian prefecture of the East or of Oriens was one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided....
, giving him the power to introduce new taxes on the population. The new taxes were very unpopular, and the mob involved in the Nika riots
Nika riots

The Nika riots , or Nika revolt, took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in 532. It was the most violent riot that Constantinople had ever seen to that point, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed....
 of 532 demanded that both John and the quaestor
Quaestor

Quaestor is a type of public official.In the Roman Republic a quaestor was an elected official who supervised the treasury and financial affairs of the state, its armies and its officers....
 Tribonian
Tribonian

File:Tribonian bas-relief in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.jpgTribonian was a jurist during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, who revised the Roman Law of the Roman Empire....
 be dismissed. Justinian did so, until the riots had been suppressed, after which he reinstated John as prefect and Tribonian as quaestor. After the riots, which had been supported by the upper-class Senators
Roman Senate

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
, John, who had the same lower-class background as Justinian, became even more important in political affairs. John influenced Justinian's military decisions, helping to draft the Perpetual Peace with Khosrau I of Persia and convincing Justinian not to empty the treasury with a large expedition to North Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
. John worked with the emperor to reduce the size of the bureaucracy, both in Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
 and in the provinces, developing a rudimentary meritocracy
Meritocracy

Meritocracy is a -cracy or other organization wherein appointments are made and responsibilities are given based on demonstrated talent and ability , rather than by wealth , family connections , social class privilege , friends , seniority , popularity or other historical determinants of social position and political power....
. Justinian's wife Theodora
Theodora (6th century)

Theodora , was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Like her husband, she is a saint in the Eastern Orthodoxy, commemorated on November 14....
 resented the amount of power and influence held by John. In 541, Theodora accused him of treason
Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of loyalty to one's sovereignty or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife ....
 and had him dismissed. The bureaucracy of the empire fell back into corruption under John's successors.