Stephanos 7 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VII |
| Dates | 695 (taq) / 695 (tpq) |
| Locations | Constantinople |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Strategos (office) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Stephanos 7 was known as Rhousios; a patrikios and strategos (Στεφάνῳ τῷ πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ, τὸ ἐπίκλην Ῥουσίῳ), in Constantinople in 695 he received orders from the emperor Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) to kill the people of the city by night and to begin with the patriarch (Kallinikos 2); the fear which these orders (τὰ κελευσθέντα τῷ πατρικίῶ Στεφάνῳ τῷ Ῥουσίῳ) aroused encouraged the patriarch (Kallinikos 2) to join the revolt of Leontios 2: Theoph. AM 6187.
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