The term asekretis (Greek: ἀσηκρῆτις, romanized: asēkrētis, invariable form) designated a senior class of secretaries in the Byzantine imperial court...

lower tier of the senior civil and military hierarchy, such as those of asekretis (senior secretary), kleisourarches (commander of a frontier district)...

bureaucracy. The title means "first asekretis", illustrating his position as the head of the order of the asekretis, the senior class of imperial notaries...

Nevertheless, he entered the service of the Empire, became cabinet secretary (asekretis), and under Irene took part in the synod of 787 as imperial commissioner...

Artemis) held prominent positions as a bureaucrat and Imperial secretary (asekretis) under preceding emperors. His tenure coincided with a period of turmoil...

attained the rank of senator, eventually becoming imperial secretary (asekretis) to the Emperor Constantine VI and his mother, the Empress Irene. When...

government records and head of the class of senior secretaries known as asekretis. Other subordinates included the chartoularios, in charge of imperial...

chronicles represent him very much as a "new man". A prōtospatharios and asēkrētis Basil Ouranos, possibly an elder relative, is attested, and we know from...

banished first to his native Paphlagonia, and then to the monastery of Asekretis at Pythia near Nicomedia, where he died in 965. Talbot & Sullivan 2005...

Porphyrogennetos. According to it, in approximately 909/910, he was protospatharios, asekretis, and ek prosopou of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme. Use of the title ek prosopou...