Stephen II of Amasea ( el, Στέφανος Β'), (died 19 July 928) was the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ...
from 29 June 925 to 18 July 928. He appears to have been appointed to the post by
Romanos I Lekapenos
Romanos I Lekapenos ( el, Ρωμανός Λεκαπηνός; 870 – 15 June 948), Latinisation of names, Latinized as Romanus I Lecapenus, was Byzantine emperor from 920 until his deposition in 944, serving as regent for the infant Constantine ...
after the death of
Nicholas I as a stop-gap until Romanos's own son,
Theophylact, was old enough to assume the post.
Steven Runciman
Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman ( – ), known as Steven Runciman, was an English historian best known for his three-volume ''A History of the Crusades'' (1951–54).
He was a strong admirer of the Byzantine Empire. His history's negative ...
calls him a "deliberate nonentity".
He is a saint, commemorated on July 18.
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References
928 deaths
10th-century patriarchs of Constantinople
People from Amasya
Year of birth unknown
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