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Stephen of Antioch
bishop of Antioch and martyr
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 25 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Antioch in Syria, today in Turkey, Saint Stephen, bishop and martyr, who suffered much from the heretics who opposed the Council of Chalcedon and, in the time of the emperor Zeno, died thrown into the river Orontes.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 25 April as a bishop of Antioch who suffered from the opponents of the Council of Chalcedon and died thrown into the river Orontes.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 25 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q41321451 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.