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Stephen II of Constantinople

Stephen II of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 925 to 928

"Patriarch Stephen II" redirects here. For other uses, see Stephen II of Antioch.

Stephen II of Amasea (Greek: Στέφανος Stefanos; died 19 July 928) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 29 June 925 to 18 July 928.

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He appears to have been appointed to the post by Romanos I Lekapenos after the death of Nicholas I 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. [1]
    Hussey, Joan M. (1990). The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. Oxford University Press.
  2. [2]
    Runciman, Steven (1988). The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
  3. [3]
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