Stephen II of Constantinople

Saint Stephen II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 29 June 925 to 18 July 928, formerly metropolitan of Amasea in the Hellenopontus. He was set on the throne by Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos. He fell asleep in July 928. The Church remembers him on 18 July, other sources on 31 July.

Before he was patriarch he was metropolitan of Amasea. He is said to have been a eunuch and to have been raised by Romanos Lekapenos to keep the throne until the emperor's son, Theophylact, reached a suitable age. The historian Steven Runciman called him a "deliberate nonentity". The earliest reports of him are few. One of the best-⁠attested events of his pastorate is the crowning, on 8 October 927, of the Bulgarian tsar Peter I with Maria Lekapene, granddaughter of Romanos I and daughter of the co-⁠emperor Christopher, in the church of the Mother of God at Pegai near Constantinople. The marriage was part of the settlement of the long enmity between Byzantines and Bulgarians. In his time Arethas of Caesarea, metropolitan and writer, asked him to pardon a bishop punished for disobedience. He died after almost three years of pastorate, succeeded by Tryphon, installed in December 928.