Stephen II

Stephen II was patriarch of Antioch from 477 to 479 and died a martyr in 479.

His year of birth is unknown. He took the throne in 477, after John II, who held the see for only three months and was sent into exile. He was killed in 479 by opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, who threw him into the river Orontes; the Roman Martyrology says that he suffered much at the hands of heretics and died in the time of the emperor Zeno. Calendion succeeded him. He is venerated as a holy martyr and commemorated on 25 April.