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Name
  
Stephen of

Siblings
  
Leo VI the Wise

Parents
  
Eudokia Ingerina

Died
  
May 18, 893 AD

Role
  

Stephen I of Constantinople

Nieces
  
Eudokia Porphyrogenita, Anna

Nephews
  
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor of the East, Basil

Similar People
  
Leo VI the Wise, Michael III, Basil I, Constantine VII Porphyro, Zoe Karbonopsina

Stephen I (Greek: Στέφανος Α΄, Stephanos I) (November 867 – 18 May 893) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 886 to 893.

Born at Constantinople, Stephen was the son of Eudokia Ingerina and, officially, Emperor Basil I. However, at the time when he was conceived, Eudokia was the mistress of Emperor Michael III. Consequently, it is possible or even probable that like his older brother Leo VI the Wise, Stephen was Michael's son.

Castrated by Basil I, Stephen became a monk and was designated for a career in the church since his childhood. In 886 his brother, the new Emperor Leo VI, dismissed the Patriarch Photios and appointed the 19-year-old Stephen as patriarch in his stead.

As patriarch Stephen participated in the ceremonial reburial of Michael III by Leo VI in the imperial mausoleum attached to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. There are no important events associated with Stephen's patriarchate and the patriarch, who acquired a reputation for piety, died in May 893. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is on May 18.

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