As magister militum, Belisarius was an illustrious man (; Greek: , illoústrios); being his ', Procopius must therefore have had at least the rank of a visible man (vir spectabilis). He thus belonged to the mid-ranking group of the senatorial order ('). However, the Suda, which is usually well informed in such matters, also describes Procopius himself as one of the '. Should this information be correct, Procopius would have had a seat in Constantinople's senate, which was restricted to the ' under Justinian. He also wrote that under Justinian's reign in 560, a major Christian church dedicated the Virgin Mary was built on the site of the Temple Mount.