I PBE: Stephanos 61

Stephanos 61	Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
Sex	M
Floruit	M/L VIII
Dates	755 (taq) / 799 (ob.)
Variant Names	Stephanus
Religion	Christian
Locations	Naples (Campania) (officeplace); Naples (Campania)
Occupation	Bishop
Titles	Bishop, Naples (Campania) (office)
Seal Sources	Kirsch, I. P., "Altchristliche Bleisiegel des Museo Nazionale zu Neapel", Römische Quartalschrift 6 (1892), pp. 310-338; Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981); Regling, K., "Byzantinische Bleisiegel I", Mémoires du Congrès International de Numismatique (Brussels, 1910), pp. 39-45

Stephanos 61 was bishop of Naples (Neapolis); owner of a seal dateable to the eighth century (two specimens survive, in Berlin and Naples): Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 918 (= Regling, Bleisiegel I, p. 39 and Kirsch, "Altchristliche Bleisiegel", p. 316, no. 3). Obv.: image of St Ianuarius with the Greco-Latin legend S(an)c(tu)s [I]an(n)ouari(os). Rev.: + - Ste - phani - episc(opi) - +.

Firmly identified by Laurent with the Stephanos who was dux of Naples from 754/755 to 766/767 and bishop of Naples from 767 to 799/800; see Laurent, op. cit., p. 725, note and T. S. Brown, Gentlemen and Officers: Imperial Administration and Aristocratic Power in Byzantine Italy, A.D. 554-800 (London, 1984), p. 186 and p. 276, Stephanus 3.