1294–1300) was a late 13th-century Byzantine senior military commander from Principality of Arbanon (Medieval Albania) with the rank of megas hetaireiarches.

[4] Progonos Sgouros was an Albanian from Durrës (Byzantine Dyrrhachion) and belonged to the prominent Skuraj family.

[2][3][5][6] He was married to Eudokia, a female relative of Andronikos II Palaiologos (r. 1282–1328), becoming a gambros of the Byzantine emperor.

[4][7] A portrait of Saint Astius in the church was likely donated by him as a symbol of the close ties between Durrës and Ohrid.

[5] Within the church, an inscription mentions Progonos and his wife Eudokia in Greek:[11] "This divine shrine of the most holy Lady Mother of God Peribleptos was built with the help and expenses of Monsignor Progon Zguros, the Great Etheriarch and his wife Mrs. Eudokia, the son-in-law of our most powerful and pious, the emperor of the Romans, Andronicus Palaeologus…”[11]