Stephen II of Constantinople

Patriarch Stephen II redirects here. It can also refer to Patriarch Stephen II of Antioch (ruled in 477–479).
Stephen II of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Lead seal of "Stephen, Archbishop of Constantinople New Rome", either of Stephen I or of Stephen II
Installed 925
Term ended 928
Personal details
Denomination Eastern Orthodox Church

Stephen II of Amasea (Greek: Στέφανος Β'), (? – 19 July 928) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 29 June 925 to 18 July 928. He appears to have been appointed to the post by Romanos I Lekapenos after the death of Tryphon as a stop-gap until Romanos's own son, Theophylact, was old enough to assume the post.[1] Steven Runciman calls him a "deliberate nonentity".[2] He is a saint, commemorated on July 18.[3]

References

  1. Hussey, Joan M. (1990). The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. Oxford University Press.
  2. Runciman, Steven (1988). The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
  3. Complete List of Saints
Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by
Nicholas Mystikos
Patriarch of Constantinople
925928
Succeeded by
Tryphon



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