Stephanos 53 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Crete (officeplace); Crete |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Metropolitan, Crete (office) |
| Seal Sources | Dumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-); Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981); Tsougarakis, D., "The Byzantine Seals of Crete", SBS 2 (1990), pp. 137-152.; Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972). |
Stephanos 53 was metropolitan bishop of Crete; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century: DOSeals II 36.11 = Zacos and Veglery 1294 = Laurent, Corpus V 3, no. 1799 = Tsougarakis, SBS 2, p. 144, no. 1. Obv.: bust of St Titos, with the legend ὁ ἅγιος Τίτος. Rev.: cruciform monogram of Στέφανον, with a circular inscription, the whole reading: Στέφανον Κρήτης πρόεδρον, Χριστέ, σῴζοις (or similar). On the text and the dating, see discussion in Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DOSeals II, p. 99.
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