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 | Chalcedonian Christianity |
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.
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]
- ^ Hussey, Joan M. (1990). The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Runciman, Steven (1988). The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
- ^ Complete List of Saints