Ioulianos 16 was a spatharokandidatos, involved in the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke Gate under the emperor Leo III (Leo 3); one of the supposed letters from pope Gregory II (Gregorios 72) to Leo 3 purports to give a description of the event; the emperor sent Ioulianos 16 to the Chalkoprateia (ἀπεστείλας τὸν Ἰουλιανὸν τὸν σπαθαροκανδιδᾶτον εἰς τὰ Χαλκοπρατεῖα) to destroy the image of the Saviour known as the Antiphonetes; against the protests of a crowd of women the spatharios (τὸν σπαθάριον) mounted a ladder and struck at the image; as he struck a third blow at the icon's face, the women pulled him down and killed him: Ps.-Gregory, Ep. I ad Leonem III, pp. 293-295. It is not certain if the spatharokandidatos and the spatharios are meant to be one and the same person. The letter is certainly a later forgery (it mentions the fall of Ravenna, which was in 751, and claims that among numerous reliable eyewitnesses from Western nations were Vandals and Goths; it also associates the Sarmatians with the Lombards as enemies of the empire) and the description contradicts other more reliable accounts (the icon was at the Chalke, not at the Chalkoprateia); the details are not therefore to be trusted; see J. Gouillard, "Aux origines de l'iconoclasme: le témoignage de Grégoire II?", TM 3 (1968), pp. 267-270. See also Anonymus 660. The name is also recorded as Iobinos.

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