It is unknown when Stephen was born. He became a Patriarch in 477, and he was a successor of
John II Codonatus,[2] who held the see only three months and was exiled. Stephen was killed in 479[3][4] and was succeeded by
Calendion.
^István Perczel, Réka Forrai, György Geréby (2005). The Eucharist in Theology and Philosophy: Issues of Doctrinal History in East and West from the Patristic Age to the Reformation. Leuven University Press.
^A. Fortescue. The lesser eastern churches.
p. 192.
^Aloys Grillmeier, Pauline Allen (1986). Christ in Christian Tradition: From the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gragory the Great (590-604). Westminster John Knox Press.
^David A. Michelson (2014). The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug.
p. 10.