''Praeses'' was one of the more common titles of provincial Governor s (the generic term was ''Rector provinciae'') at the head of an 'eparchy' (i.e. Roman Province ) during the Dominate .
According to the Notitia dignitatum (circa 400 AD), the following provinces were administered by a Praeses (griued by administrative diocesis):
- there were thirty one praesides in the western empire:
- ---four in Illyricum: Dalmaticae, Pannonia prima, Noricum mediterraneum, Noricum ripensis
- ---seven in Italiae: Alpes Cottiae, Raetia prima, Raetia secunda, Samnium, Valeria, Saradinia, Corsicae.
- ---two in Africa: Mauretania Sitifensis, Tripolitana
- ---four in Hispaniae: Tarraconensis, Carthagiensis, {Link without Title} Tingitania, Insulae Baleari
- ---eleven in Galliae: Alpes maritimae, Alpes Poeninae et Graiae, Maxima Sequani, Aquitanica prima, Aquitanica secunda, Novempopulana, Narbonensis prima, Narbonensis secunda, Lugdunensis secunda, Lugdunensis tertia, Lugdunensis Senonica
- ---three in Britanniae: Britannia prima, Britannia secunda, Flavia Caesariensis.
- forty provinces had praesides in the eastern empire:
- ---five in Aegyptiaca: Libya superior, Libya inferior, Thebais, Aegyptus {Link without Title} , Arcadiae.
- ---eight in Oriens diocesis: Palaestinae salutaris, Palaestinae secunda, Foenicis Libani, Eufratensis, Syriae salutaris, Osroehena, Mesopotamia, Cilicia secunda
- ---seven in Asiana: Pisidia, Lycaonia, Frygia Pacatiana, Frygia salutaris, Lycia, Caria, Insularum.
- ---eight in Pontica: Honoriad---, Cappadocia prima, Cappadocia secunda, Helenoponti (=Hellespont), Pontus Polemoniacus, Armenia prima, Armenia secunda, Galatia salutaris.
- ---four in Thraciae: Haemimontus, Rhodopa, Moesiae secunda, Scythia
- ---eight in Illyricum: Thessalia, Epirus vetus, Epirus nova, Dacia ripensis, Moesiae prima, Praevalitana, Dardania, Macedonia salutaris.
- The chairperson of a Student Society in the Netherlands or Belgium ; in Dutch there is also a purist spelling ''preses''.
- Furthermore, various minor offices can be designated be a compound title, e.g. ''dooppraeses'' in charge of the 'baptism', i.e. initiation (and associated Hazing ).
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