Christopher or Christophoros Burgaris (Greek: Χριστόφορος Βούλγαρης) was an imperial protospatharios and the short-tenured successor of the famous Basil Boioannes as catepan of Italy.
The chronicler Lupus Protospatharius gives the date of Boioannes' departure as 1029, but modern historian Ferdinand Chalandon corrects this to 1027.
Lupus, however, misplaces the election of Byzantius as archbishop of Bari, which occurred before 1025, in this year and therefore his whole chronology for the period seems to be in error, in our manuscripts at least.
A church inscription in Thessaloniki from Christophoros' time as catepan records that he had three children with his wife Maria[1]:
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