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Stephen II of Constantinople

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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
Installed29 June 925
Term ended18 July 928
PredecessorNicholas I of Constantinople
SuccessorTryphon of Constantinople
Personal details
Died19 July 928
DenominationChalcedonian Christianity

Stephen II of Constantinople (Greek: Στέφανος Stefanos; died 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 Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos after the death of Nicholas I of Constantinople as a stop-gap until Romanos I'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 18 July.[3]

Notes and references

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  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 Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
925 – 928
Succeeded by