Stephen of Ephesus
bishop of Ephesus (448–451)
10th Metropolitan of Ephesus
Offices
Stephen of Ephesus was a bishop of Ephesus, an attendee of the Second Council of Ephesus and the Council of Chalcedon. Stephen became a presbyter in the city of Ephesus about 400 AD and then bishop in 448 AD. He was a staunch rival of his predecessor Bassianus and, as Bassianus himself had done four years earlier, usurped the episcopal see of Ephesus by force. In 448 he threw Bassianus without a trial into prison.
Related people
- Bassianus succeeded · inferred
Events
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) 1 claim — Council of Chalcedon
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 671 sqq. — Provincia Asia, Ecclesia Ephesi metropolis